Word
Она вложила в проект столько же денег, сколько и её партнёр.
Meaning
She invested as much money in the project as her partner.
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Breakdown of Она вложила в проект столько же денег, сколько и её партнёр.
и
and
она
she / it (for a feminine noun)
в
in / to (direction)
деньги
money
Questions & Answers about Она вложила в проект столько же денег, сколько и её партнёр.
Why do we use the genitive plural денег after столько же?
Words of quantity like столько (so much / as much) and сколько (how much) behave like numbers or words like много. They require the noun they are counting to be in the genitive case. Since деньги is a plural-only noun, it takes the genitive plural form денег.
What is the purpose of the particles же and и in the phrase столько же ... сколько и?
They emphasize the exact equivalence of the two things being compared, translating roughly to "just as much ... as". While you could grammatically say столько денег, сколько её партнёр, adding же and и is the most natural way to express an equal amount in Russian.
Why does вложила (invested) take the accusative в проект instead of the prepositional в проекте?
Even though in English we say we invest "in" a project, the Russian verb вложить literally means "to put into". This implies a directional motion or transfer of money into a destination, which requires the accusative case.
Why is её партнёр in the nominative case? Shouldn't it also be affected by the quantity words?
No, because её партнёр is the subject of the second, implied clause: "...as her partner [invested]". The word сколько is comparing the amount of money, not the number of partners, so the partner remains in the nominative case as the doer of the action.