Thread: Subject at the end of phrase?

Thanks for your answer.I understand that the beginning of the phrase is kept for the new and that we want to be underlined.
A flood occured yesterday.
Extremely dangerous became the flood (previously mentioned).
Thank you.

Originally Posted by radomir

Thanks for your answer.I understand that the beginning of the phrase is kept for the new and that we want to be underlined.
A flood occured yesterday.
Extremely dangerous became the flood (previously mentioned).
Thank you.

Vice-virsa. The end of the sentence is kept for the new. We did not talk about heavy rains but about the cause of the flood. Main, new and underlined information goes at the END of the sentence in Russian.
The answer to a question is at the end. Кто приезжает завтра?
Завтра приезжает Иван.
- Когда приезжает Иван?
- Иван приезжает завтра.

Originally Posted by Marcus

Vice-virsa.

What you mean is "the other way round". "Vice versa" is for mutuality.

John loves Jane and vice versa = both love each other.

John loves Jane? No, the other way round = Jane loves John, but John does not love Jane.

For Marcus.
I understand that you mean "on the contrary" instead of "vice-versa". Really the question were not the place of "the cause" but that of the effect, the result. the second part, that becomes something (in instrumental), (as in the three examples shown above) what I see once and again in the first place:
"John became the winner" or "The winner (instr.) became John".
Thank you.

Originally Posted by radomir

Thanks for your answer.I understand that the beginning of the phrase is kept for the new and that we want to be underlined.
A flood occured yesterday.
Extremely dangerous became the flood (previously mentioned).
Thank you.

I don't quite understand what you are trying to say here. Can you make up a couple of sample sentences in Russian to illustrate your point? More often than not, we place the theme (topic) of a sentence before the rheme (comment), and it is the rheme that usually contains the new information.