What is a foreign land? Is it someone else's or someone else's? Object, phenomenon or substance? This article will tell about it. In addition, we will consider the morphological characteristics of this word, select synonyms for it and study several examples.
Foreign land is…
At the first reading of the noun "foreign land" it becomes clear that it is related to the words alien, stranger, stranger, alienation. This word refers to foreign lands as opposed to the homeland.
Morphological features, declension
The word "foreign land" is a common and inanimate feminine noun, first declension. Theoretically, the noun we are studying has plural forms, but in everyday speech, singular forms are used.
| Case | Question | Examples |
| Nominative | What? | Foreign land is the opposition to homeland. |
| Genitive | What? | The beauty of a foreign land did not please the eyes of Leonid Artemovich, he missed home, his family, even his books very much. |
| Dative | What? | It's impossible to miss a foreign land - so you can't forget your home. |
| Accusative | What? | The captive artist had to paint a foreign land. |
| Instrumental | What? | By "foreign land" they mean foreign lands, foreign lands, abroad, that is, everything that is not home. |
| Prepositional case | About what? | Pavel Antonovich had to live out his life in a foreign land, he never again had a chance to see the faces of his relatives and friends. |
Synonym for foreign land
Today, this noun is not used as often as it used to be. It was replaced by synonyms, that is, words with the same or similar meaning:
- Abroad: "Abroad met travelers not very friendly: a steel sky, heavy clouds and heavy rain."
- Foreign countries: "Let's go on vacation to distant foreign countries".
- Abroad: "I have already visited neighboring countries".
