"Here is Germany."

Topic: Russian

"Here is Germany."

Translation:Вот Германия.

December 4, 2015

17 Comments

tara668

1631

Why is it германия and not германии? (they're using the genitive?)

March 8, 2016

Neon_Iceberg

1354

"There is/are" or "here is/are" requires the nominative.

December 8, 2016

SilSchuuri

This might be a stupid question, but what is a nominative?

June 15, 2017

Neon_Iceberg

1354

It is one of the Russian cases of nouns:

http://www.study-languages-online.com/russian-cases.html

June 15, 2017

buttercutter1

I interpreted the sentence to be здесь Германия, mainly because I am right now in Germany, I think especially for the german testees the answer should be accepted too.

December 4, 2015

Sebkasanzew

could be also the case that someone shows Germany on a map and says "здесь Германия"

December 15, 2015

MalvinK

When you show something on a map, I think is better to use здесь

February 28, 2016

KruzKalke

Would that not be better translated as "Germany is here?"

Granted, both translations would make sense, but I don't know how much context is needed such as gesturing at the map, the previous conversation, etc.

January 2, 2016

degj04

Difference between вот and здесь?

July 27, 2017