Попадание было в сектор 25.

The hit was in the outer bull.

Breakdown of Попадание было в сектор 25.

• в: in
• быть: to be
• сектор 25: the outer bull (25 points)
• попадание: the hit

Questions & Answers about Попадание было в сектор 25.

What does попадание mean here?

Here попадание means a hit, a strike, or an impact—the event of something successfully hitting a target or area.

It comes from the verb попасть / попадать. In other contexts those verbs can also mean to get into, to end up in, or to arrive somewhere by chance, but in this sentence the meaning is clearly to hit.

Why is it было?

Было is the past-tense form of быть (to be).

Russian past tense agrees with the subject in gender and number:

• он был
• она была
• оно было
• они были

Since попадание is a neuter singular noun, the sentence uses было.

What case is сектор in?

Сектор is in the accusative singular.

That is because попадание commonly takes the pattern в + accusative to show what was hit or where the hit landed:

• попадание в цель = a hit on the target
• попадание в дом = a hit on/into the house
• попадание в сектор 25 = a hit in/into sector 25

Also, сектор is masculine and inanimate, so its accusative form looks the same as its nominative form: сектор.