Дартс требует меткости.

It is a simple sentence with:

• Дартс — the subject
• требует — the verb
• меткости — the thing required

Literally, it is Darts requires accuracy / good aim.

A very literal word-for-word gloss is:

• Дартс = darts
• требует = requires
• меткости = of accuracy / of good aim

That last part sounds odd in English, but it is normal in Russian because of the case used after требовать.

Because it is in the genitive singular.

The dictionary form is меткость. After the verb требовать (to require), Russian usually uses the genitive case, so:

• меткость → nominative
• меткости → genitive

So the sentence uses меткости because требовать typically governs the genitive:

• требовать помощи = to require help
• требовать внимания = to require attention
• требовать меткости = to require accuracy / good aim

Меткость means accuracy in hitting a target, good aim, or marksmanship.

It comes from the adjective меткий, which means accurate, true to the mark, or having good aim.

So in this sentence, меткость is more specific than general precision. It fits very naturally with a target game like darts.

A rough comparison:

• меткость = accuracy in aiming/hitting
• точность = precision/accuracy more generally

Требует is the 3rd person singular present tense form of требовать.

So:

• я требую = I require
• ты требуешь = you require
• он / она / оно требует = he / she / it requires

Here the subject is дартс, which is singular, so the verb is also singular:

• Дартс требует... = Darts requires...

It is also imperfective, which makes sense because this sentence states a general fact.

It is singular.

Even though English darts looks plural, Russian дартс is treated as the name of one game or sport, so it behaves as a singular noun in this sentence.

That is why the verb is singular:

• Дартс требует... not Дартс требуют...

So you can think of it as meaning the game of darts.

Because Russian has no articles.

Russian does not have direct equivalents of a/an and the. Whether English would say darts, the game of darts, or something similar depends on context.

So Дартс требует меткости is perfectly complete in Russian without any article words.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English because case endings help show the grammatical roles.

The neutral, straightforward order is:

• Дартс требует меткости.

But you could also say:

• Меткости требует дартс.

That version is more emphatic or stylistically marked, as if focusing on меткости.

For a learner, the first version is the best basic pattern to remember.

The stress is:

• Дартс тре́бует ме́ткости

Notes:

• Дартс — one syllable
• тре́бует — stress on the first syllable
• ме́ткости — stress on the first syllable

A rough English-friendly pronunciation might be:

• darts TRYE-boo-yet MYET-kas-tee

That is only approximate, but it can help you get started.

Yes, but the meaning would shift a little.

For example, точности would mean precision/accuracy in a broader sense. But меткости is especially good when talking about hitting a target.

So for darts, меткости is a very natural choice because it highlights good aim.