"Every fire will burn out sometime" - many people know the words of this famous song "Time Machine". What is a bonfire? How many meanings does this noun have? What declension does it belong to and how does it change in cases and numbers? Many questions arise when you think about it.
What is a bonfire?
What associations do we have with the word "bonfire"? Forest, romance, songs, warmth, thoughtfulness, dreams. And how will explanatory dictionaries answer the question "what is a fire"?
A bonfire is a human-controlled fire set for a purpose.
Morphological characteristics
What is a bonfire in terms of morphology? It is a common noun, inanimate masculine noun. Like all masculine nouns ending in a consonant, "bonfire" belongs to the second type of declension and changes in cases and numbers accordingly.
| Case/Number | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | What? | What is a bonfire? | The fires did not want to flare up. |
| Genitive | What? | There is not a single fire left that a reckless girl could not jump over. | To warm up and prepare dinner, tired travelers lit several small fires. |
| Dative | What? | Don't get too close to the fire, hot sparks may hit you. | Enemy fires can detect us, we urgently need to fill them with water. |
| Accusative | What? | Yes, I can see the fire and the people sitting around it, but I can't see the faces. | Ritual bonfires were lit everywhere. |
| Instrumental | What? | A light fragrant smoke rose above the fire. | Boys relaxing on the lake admired the bonfires and did not understand what danger they were fraught with. |
| Prepositional case | About what? | Look for your chain in the fire, maybe you accidentally dropped it there. | You can talk about fire for hours, you can look at fire for even longer - what great magic is hidden in fires. |
It is impossible to find a test word for the noun "bonfire". It is dictionary, and its spelling should be remembered "K-O-S-T-E-R".
Sentences with "bonfire"
The lexical meaning of any word and its subtletiesusage in speech and writing is best absorbed in the context of sentences:
- What can you say about a bonfire?
- The fire burned high and hot. But the girl, upset by the latest events, could not warm her icy fingers and calm her nervous trembling.
- Boughs and twigs crackled merrily in the fire flame.
- The ritual sacrificial fire spread to the nearest dwellings. It seemed that the gods wanted to incinerate the village, wipe it off the face of the sinful earth.
- In the lessons of life safety, tenth graders studied the types of fire, how to decompose it, and could not wait for the moment when we begin to put this knowledge into practice.
- The Snow Maiden closed her eyes, sighed lightly, ran up, jumped over the fire and melted in the sky with a blue cloud.
- On the night of Ivan Kupala, Slavic girls jumped over high bonfires and looked for a fern flower. They naively believed in his magical powers.
- We built a huge fire, but we couldn't light it: the firewood must have been damp.
