Breakdown of Благодаря знаниям и усилиям у нас есть свободное время.
и
and
мы
we
у
at, by
есть
is, there is, to have
время
time
свободный
free, available
благодаря
thanks to
усилие
the effort
знание
the knowledge
Questions & Answers about Благодаря знаниям и усилиям у нас есть свободное время.
Why do знание and усилие end in -ям here?
The preposition благодаря (thanks to) requires the Dative case. Since both знание (knowledge) and усилие (effort) are being used in the plural, they take the Dative plural ending -ям, becoming знаниям and усилиям.
English treats "knowledge" as an uncountable singular noun. Why is знаниям plural in Russian?
While Russian does use the singular знание for awareness or a specific fact, it is almost always used in the plural (знания) when talking about a person's accumulated knowledge, education, or expertise.
Can I use благодаря to say "thanks to the storm, we are late"?
No, благодаря comes from the verb благодарить (to thank) and is strictly used for positive outcomes. If you are talking about a negative cause like a storm making you late, you must use the preposition из-за followed by the Genitive case.
Why does the adjective свободное end in -ое if the noun время ends in -я?
Although most Russian nouns ending in -я are feminine, время is one of a small group of special irregular nouns ending in -мя that are actually neuter. Because время is the subject here (literally "free time exists at us"), it is in the Nominative case, so the adjective takes the neuter Nominative ending -ое.
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