Съёмочная группа изучила раскадровку.

to study

Breakdown of Съёмочная группа изучила раскадровку.

• съёмочная группа: the film crew
• раскадровка: the storyboard

Questions & Answers about Съёмочная группа изучила раскадровку.

Why is изучила in the feminine form?

Because the subject is группа, and группа is a grammatically feminine noun in Russian.

In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with the subject in gender and number:

• masculine: изучил
• feminine: изучила
• neuter: изучило
• plural: изучили

So even though a film crew is made up of several people, the head noun is группа = group, which is singular and feminine. That is why Russian uses изучила, not изучили.

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Why is раскадровку ending in -у?

Because it is in the accusative case, which is used here for the direct object of the verb.

The dictionary form is раскадровка. That is nominative singular.
For most feminine nouns ending in -а, the accusative singular changes to -у:

• раскадровка → раскадровку
• группа → группу
• сцена → сцену

So in this sentence:

• Съёмочная группа = the subject
• изучила = the verb
• раскадровку = the thing they studied, so it goes into the accusative

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What exactly is съёмочная группа? Is it a fixed expression?