Word
По-моему, было очень холодно.
Meaning
In my opinion it was very cold.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of По-моему, было очень холодно.
очень
very
быть
to be
холодно
cold (adverb)
по-моему
in my opinion
Questions & Answers about По-моему, было очень холодно.
The lesson is about using dative pronouns like 'мне' for impersonal expressions. Why is there no dative pronoun here?
This sentence describes the general environment ('it was cold') rather than a specific person's physical feeling. If you wanted to say 'I felt very cold,' you would use the dative pronoun and say Мне было очень холодно. But here, По-моему simply gives your opinion about the overall temperature.
What kind of word is 'По-моему' and why does it have a hyphen?
По-моему is an adverb meaning 'in my opinion' or 'I think.' It is built from the prefix по- and a form of the possessive word мой (my). In Russian, adverbs formed in this specific way always require a hyphen.
Why is the verb 'было' in the neuter form?
Because this is an impersonal sentence describing the weather. There is no grammatical subject (no 'he,' 'she,' or 'it' doing the action). In Russian, when a past-tense sentence has no subject, the verb always defaults to the neuter singular form, which is было.
Why is there a comma after 'По-моему'?
In Russian, introductory words that express the speaker's attitude or point of view, like По-моему (in my opinion) or Конечно (of course), are almost always separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma.