"Мы в России."

Translation: We are in Russia.

[ph516503]

is россии in the prepositional case here? I'm curious why an и has been placed on the end, rather than an e. I understood the normal rule was я -> е for prepositional case.

[deactivated user]

It’s an exception: when the stem ends in -и, prepositional case ends in -ии, not in -ие. E.g. в России, в Монго́лии 'in Mongolia', на Еврови́дении 'on Eurovision', etc.

[ph516503]

спасибо!

[Eddygp]

Спасибо*

[ph516503]

fixed now. I'm always mixing up the а and о ;-)

[Eddygp]

It's easy to mix them up :)

[Adde584521]

We are in the holy USSR ¯_,¯

[Theiz32]

You know the Russian national anthem then?

[JanetteReeli]

That's a lie, I'm actually a couple kilometers west from Russia.

[D.ominik.a]

I have noticed that Russian speakers often omit is/are. (for example this sentence reads as We in Russia instead of We are in Russia). Is this always the case or do they sometimes use it?

[KiefAtheros]

The verb to be is almost never used in Russian.

[ElliotSmit768145]

Female announcer makes it sound like <<Мы в Россия.>

[Jude37716]

almost clicked "dima" instead of russia

[Orlando68591]

Lucky you!