Breakdown of Парк закрыт, поэтому нам негде гулять с собакой.
парк
park
мы
we
собака
dog
гулять
to walk
поэтому
so (therefore)
с
with (also со)
закрыт
closed (закрыт, закрыта, закрыты)
негде
nowhere (location)
Questions & Answers about Парк закрыт, поэтому нам негде гулять с собакой.
Why is it нам instead of мы?
Words like негде (nowhere to) form impersonal sentences. The person experiencing the lack of a place or time is the logical subject and must be in the Dative case, so мы becomes нам. The phrase literally translates to 'to us there is nowhere to walk'.
Why use негде instead of нигде?
негде means 'there is nowhere to do something' and is always paired with an infinitive verb, like гулять. The word нигде just means 'nowhere' in a general sense and must be used with a normally negated verb, like in the sentence мы нигде не гуляем (we are not walking anywhere).
Why is the word for closed закрыт instead of закрытый?
закрыт is a short-form adjective. Russian frequently uses these short forms instead of full adjectives like закрытый when stating a current state or condition as the main predicate of a sentence.
Why does собака change to собакой?
The preposition с when meaning 'with' requires the noun that follows it to be in the Instrumental case. The feminine noun собака drops its -а and adds -ой to show this.
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