Вычитку закончили, с тем чтобы согласовать окончательный расчёт.

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Breakdown of Вычитку закончили, с тем чтобы согласовать окончательный расчёт.

• тот: that
• закончить: to finish
• чтобы: so that / in order to

Questions & Answers about Вычитку закончили, с тем чтобы согласовать окончательный расчёт.

Why is закончили plural when there is no visible subject?

This is a very common Russian pattern called an indefinite-personal construction.

Russian often uses a 3rd person plural verb with no subject when the speaker does not name who did the action, or when the doer is obvious from context.

So закончили literally looks like they finished, but in English it may correspond to:

• they finished
• we finished
• someone finished
• a passive-like idea such as the proofreading was finished

The sentence focuses on the fact of completion, not on who completed it.

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What is вычитку, and why does it end in -у?

Вычитку is the accusative singular of вычитка.

• вычитка = proofreading, proofread checking, editorial checking of a text
• вычитку = proofreading (as the direct object)

Here it is the thing that was finished, so it must be in the accusative case:

• закончить что? → вычитку

This noun is feminine, and feminine nouns in -а usually change to -у in the accusative singular:

• вычитка → вычитку

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