Breakdown of Гончар решил замесить глину.
Questions & Answers about Гончар решил замесить глину.
Not necessarily. It is capitalized here because it is the first word in the sentence. In Russian, just like in English, the first word of a sentence gets a capital letter.
If you saw it in the middle of a sentence as a common noun, it would normally be гончар = potter.
It is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence — the person doing the action.
The basic dictionary form is гончар.
Решил is the past tense masculine singular form of решить.
Russian past tense agrees with the subject in gender and number:
- он решил = he decided
- она решила = she decided
- они решили = they decided
Because гончар is grammatically masculine singular here, the verb becomes решил.
Because after решить Russian usually uses an infinitive to express what someone decided to do.
So:
- решил замесить = decided to knead / mix
This works very much like English decided to do something.