"За ними стоит женщина."

Translation: A woman is standing behind them.

[ironmanjt]

Why is "behind them stands a woman" not right?

[BillLC]

Slightly unnatural word order, but not grammatically incorrect

[nominusJPG]

With thou Shakespeare would like to have a word.

[LobsterGhost]

As far as I know, the instrumental form of они is ими. So is it a rule that you always say ними if the previous word ends in a vowel?

[Jonathan872201]

I believe it's ними because it follows a preposition.

[ngochung72]

Is "за"used with instrumental? I thought it is used with genitive.

[kmarkec]

if im correct, "за" with accusative is "for", whereas with instrumental it is "behind"

[Sam_Hudge]

Any native speaker please help me, why it's pronounced "стОит" in this sentence? I remember that in another sentence in Russian course, it's pronounced "стАит".

[MiledRizk]

It should be стоИт, pronounced стаИт. The stress is on the И.

[Fenchurch38]

First I had the Russian sentencevto translate into English. No way to know that ним would nit be accepted!

[Fenchurch38]

Sorry I mixed it up: first time I encountered the exercise I had to put a word in the Russian sentence. Amongst the choices I had ними and ним. No way to know which one to choose, but Duo rejected "ним".

[TanyaEmtso]

Неаравильное произношение. Нужно говорить: за ними стоИт женщина.

[Georges353975]

How should we say : "A woman is behind him" ? Because I was wrong when I wrote "ими".

[Georges353975]

Sorry I have thought it over : It might be Hим and not ими. Just a confusion.

[susanashe]

which case is ними It is not on my personal pronoun scheme