Questions & Answers about У нас одинаковые сумки.
This lesson is about comparatives. Why isn't a comparative form used here to compare our bags?
This sentence expresses complete equality rather than one bag being better or worse than the other. To say things are exactly the same, you just use the standard adjective одинаковые (identical) instead of a comparative word ending in -ее.
Why does the adjective одинаковые end in -ые here?
It is in the plural form to match the plural noun сумки (bags). Because the bags are the grammatical subject of the sentence (literally translated as At us are identical bags), both the adjective and the noun are in the nominative case.
Is одинаковые the only way to say the same in Russian? Could I use такие же?
Одинаковые is used when you are looking at items together in one group and saying they are identical to each other. If you were comparing your bag to a specific bag someone else mentioned earlier, you would use такие же (the same kind of bags). Since both bags are grouped together here as the subject, одинаковые is the natural choice.
A quick refresher: why is we translated as нас instead of мы?
The sentence uses the classic Russian possession structure У plus the genitive case, which literally translates to By us are. Нас is the genitive form of мы. Even though the English translation is We have, the Russian grammatical subject is actually the bags!