Breakdown of Дизайнер уверен в новом видении проекта.
новый
new
в
in / to (direction)
проект
the project
уверенный
sure
Questions & Answers about Дизайнер уверен в новом видении проекта.
Why do we use the Prepositional case (в новом видении) after уверен?
The short adjective уверен (confident / sure) dictates the use of the preposition в followed by the Prepositional case. While English uses "confident in" or "sure of", in Russian you must always lock in the в + Prepositional structure for this meaning.
Why does видении end in -ии instead of the standard Prepositional -е?
The dictionary form of the word is видение (vision). Neuter nouns that end in -ие (like здание, внимание, and видение) follow a special declension pattern. In the Prepositional case, they take the ending -ии, not the typical -е you see on words like окно (в окне).
How could I use this lesson's topic, иной (other/different), in this sentence?
To say the designer is confident in a different vision, you would swap out новом for the Prepositional neuter form of иной, which is ином. The phrase would then be уверен в ином видении проекта.
Why use the short adjective уверен instead of the long form уверенный?