Breakdown of Масса продукта — около трёхсот граммов.
продукт
product, foodstuff
грамм
gram
триста
three hundred
около
approximately, about
масса
mass
Questions & Answers about Масса продукта — около трёхсот граммов.
Why does триста change to трёхсот here?
The preposition около (about or around) requires the genitive case. When declining hundreds, both halves of the word change. The first part (три) becomes трёх, and the second part (-ста) becomes -сот. Combined, they make трёхсот.
Why is the word for grams written as граммов here?
Because the number is in an oblique case (the genitive трёхсот), the noun must match it in case and be plural. Remember a tricky detail about hundreds: even in the nominative case, numbers like двести (200) and триста (300) are followed by the genitive plural (триста граммов), unlike the single digits два and три which take the genitive singular (три грамма).
What is the purpose of the dash (—) in this sentence?
It replaces the present-tense verb 'is'. In Russian, when you drop the verb 'to be' between a subject (масса) and the phrase describing it (около трёхсот граммов), you typically insert a dash to link them.
Why is it продукта instead of продукт?
It is in the genitive case to show possession or relation. It translates directly to 'of the product', linking it to the subject to mean 'the mass of the product'.
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