What is a foreign land? Is it something alien or someone else? Subject, phenomenon or substance? This article will tell about this. In addition, we will consider the morphological characteristics of this word, select synonyms for it, and study several examples.
A stranger is ...
At the first reading of the noun "foreign land" it becomes clear that it has to do with the words of a stranger, a stranger, a stranger, alienation. This word refers to foreign lands in contrast to the homeland.
Morphological features, declination
The word "foreign land" is a common noun and inanimate noun of the feminine, the first declension. Theoretically, the noun we study has plural forms, but singular forms are used in everyday speech.
| Case | Question | Examples |
| Nominative | What? | A stranger is a contrast to the homeland. |
| Genitive | What? | The beauty of a foreign land did not please the eyes of Leonid Artemovich, he very much missed his house, his family, even his books. |
| Dative | Why? | Just as one cannot miss a foreign land, one cannot forget one's own home. |
| Accusative | What? | The captive artist had to draw a foreign land. |
| Instrumental case | Than? | By "foreign land" they mean foreign lands, foreign lands, foreign countries, that is, everything that is not the homeland. |
| Prepositional | About what? | Pavel Antonovich had to live his life in a foreign land, he never had the opportunity to see the faces of his relatives and friends. |
Synonym for a foreign land
Nowadays, this noun is not used as often as in previous times. He was replaced by synonyms, that is, words with the same or similar meaning:
- Abroad: "Abroad met travelers not very warmly: with steel sky, heavy clouds and heavy rain."
- Foreign country: "Let's go on vacation to a distant foreign country."
- Abroad: "I have already visited the countries of the near abroad."