Здесь место для этих старых кусачек и щипцов.
Here is the place for these old wire cutters and tongs.
Breakdown of Здесь место для этих старых кусачек и щипцов.
и
and
здесь
here
старый
old
место
place, seat
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
для
for
кусачки
wire cutters
щипцы
tongs
Questions & Answers about Здесь место для этих старых кусачек и щипцов.
Why does кусачек have an 'е' in it when the nominative form is кусачки?
Кусачки is a plural-only noun. In the Genitive case, words of this type often drop their final vowel entirely, leaving a 'zero ending'. Because leaving just the consonants 'чк' at the end of the word would be hard to pronounce, Russian inserts a fleeting vowel е to break them up, giving us кусачек.
Why does щипцов end in -ов while кусачек has no ending?
Even though they do not have singular forms, plural-only nouns generally follow either masculine or feminine declension patterns. Щипцы (tongs) declines like a masculine noun, so it takes the standard masculine Genitive plural ending -ов. Кусачки behaves like a feminine noun, which is why it gets a zero ending.
Why are the words этих and старых in the Genitive plural here?
They are modifiers meaning 'these' and 'old'. They are in the Genitive plural because the preposition для (for) always requires the Genitive case. Since для applies to the plural tools in this sentence, the modifiers must match the nouns they describe in both case and number.
Why isn't there a verb like есть (is) in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense of the verb 'to be' is almost always omitted. Here, you are just stating a fact about what a location is used for ('Here [is] the place'), so you simply place the subject and the location next to each other without an active verb.
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