Breakdown of Договор защищает авторское право и требует конфиденциальности.
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защищать
to protect
договор
the contract
требовать
to require
Questions & Answers about Договор защищает авторское право и требует конфиденциальности.
What case is договор here, and what is its role in the sentence?
Договор is in the nominative singular. It is the subject of the sentence—the thing doing the actions.
Both verbs, защищает and требует, refer back to договор:
- Договор защищает...
- Договор требует...
So grammatically, договор is the noun that controls the verb forms.
Why do защищает and требует both end in -ет?
They are both 3rd person singular present tense verb forms.
That ending matches the subject договор, which is:
- singular
- not I / you
- so Russian uses the he/she/it form
You can think of them as:
- защищает = protects
- требует = requires
Russian does not need a separate word like it here, because the subject договор is already stated.
Why is it авторское право, not авторского права?