instrumental in predicates

💡 Grammar Rule

The Instrumental Case in Russian Predicates In Russian, the instrumental case is not only used to express "with" or a means of action; it is ...

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

Кем ты хочешь стать, когда вырастешь?

Kem ty khochesh' stat', kogda vyrastesh'?

I want to be an architect someday.

Я хочу стать архитектором когда-нибудь.

Ya khochu stat' arkhitektorom kogda-nibud'.

In his youth, he was a soldier at the front.

В молодости он был солдатом на фронте.

V molodosti on byl soldatom na fronte.

I didn’t know that, I thought he had always been a teacher.

Я этого не знал, я думал, что он всегда был учителем.

Ya etogo ne znal, ya dumal, chto on vsegda byl uchitelem.

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