What is the right way to say?
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- У ВАС ВЧЕРА … ВСТРЕЧА? \\\\\\\ – У НАС ВЧЕРА НЕ … ВСТРЕЧИ. |
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Not sure?
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- У вас вчера была встреча?
- У нас вчера не было встречи.
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VERB <= NOUN №1
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When we need to decide about the form of a verb, we have to check the noun or personal pronoun in Nominative case (form №1) regardless its meaning.
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Thus, in the first sentence the noun in case №1 (Nominative) is “встреча”, она (feminine). Therefore we use the verb in feminine: “была”, even though the Subject is plural (вы).
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NO NOUN №1 => VERB TAKES “ОНО”-FORM
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In the second sentence a noun/ personal pronoun in №1 (Nominative case) is absent. The noun “вечеринка” takes form №2 (Genitive: вечеринки), the pronoun “мы” is Genitive too (у нас). When we need to decide about the form of a verb, we can’t check a noun or personal pronoun in any form but Nominative case (form №1). When we have nothing to check with, by default we use a verb in оно-form: “было”.
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