Questions & Answers about В городе девятьсот домов.
Why is the word for houses in the genitive plural (домов)?
In Russian, numbers 5 and above (including 900) require the noun that follows them to be in the genitive plural case. The basic word is дом, and its genitive plural form is домов.
How is the number девятьсот (nine hundred) formed?
It is a combination of девять (nine) and сот (the genitive plural form of сто, meaning a hundred). So it literally translates to nine hundreds.
Why is the word есть omitted if the English translation says there are?
When a sentence focuses on the exact quantity of something in a specific location, Russian normally skips the word есть. You simply state the location, the number, and the noun.
Why does the word город (town) have an -е ending here?
It is in the prepositional case. The preposition в combined with the prepositional case is used to indicate a static location, answering the question where?.
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