Word
Вы сами установили этот кран на кухне?
Meaning
Did you install this faucet in the kitchen yourselves?
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Вы сами установили этот кран на кухне?
вы
you (plural)
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
на
on, at / by (transport) / to (a place) / to (in answer to)
кухня
kitchen
Questions & Answers about Вы сами установили этот кран на кухне?
How does сами work here, and why is it in the plural form?
сами is the emphatic pronoun meaning 'oneself' or 'on one's own' (emphasizing that they did it without help). It takes the plural form сами to match the pronoun вы (you). Even if вы is used formally to address just one person, вы сами is perfectly natural and common, though you might also hear Вы сам (to a man) or Вы сама (to a woman).
What is the difference between сами and себя?
English uses 'yourselves' for both, but Russian separates them. себя is a reflexive pronoun used when you are the receiver of the action (like 'You hurt yourselves'). сами is an emphatic pronoun used to stress who performed the action (like 'You installed it yourselves', meaning you didn't hire a plumber).
Why is этот кран not changed for the accusative case?
Because кран (faucet) is a masculine inanimate noun. In Russian, masculine inanimate nouns—and the words modifying them, like этот—look exactly the same in the accusative case (when they are the direct object receiving the action) as they do in the nominative case.
Why does 'in the kitchen' translate to на кухне instead of в кухне?