Breakdown of Её причёска кажется мне очень однообразной.
очень
very
мне
to me
казаться
to seem
её
her (possessive)
однообразный
monotonous
причёска
the hairstyle (f)
Questions & Answers about Её причёска кажется мне очень однообразной.
Why is однообразной in the instrumental case here?
It is because of the verb кажется (seems). When you say someone or something 'seems' a certain way, Russian uses the instrumental case for the descriptive adjective. Since причёска (hairstyle) is feminine, the adjective takes the feminine instrumental ending -ой.
The word однообразной means 'monotonous'. Does this relate to the phrases for 'the exact same' that we are learning in this lesson?
Yes! The word is built from the roots одно- (one/the same) and образ (shape, form, or image). So однообразный literally means 'of a single form' or 'always the same.' While this lesson focuses on phrases like один и тот же to mean the exact same item, this word shows how the root один is also used to describe a quality of sameness or a lack of variety.
Could I just say Я думаю, её причёска... instead of using кажется мне?
You could, but they have slightly different nuances. Мне кажется (literally 'it seems to me') is the most natural and common way in Russian to express a subjective personal impression, much like 'I feel like' in English. Using Я думаю sounds a bit more like a formal intellectual conclusion.
What verb is причёска (hairstyle) related to?
It comes from the verb чесать (to scratch or to comb) and its perfective prefixed form причесать (to comb or do someone's hair). The suffix -ка turns that action into a noun representing the result.
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