Решение по жалобе сохранили на случай, если взыскание нужно будет аннулировать.

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Breakdown of Решение по жалобе сохранили на случай, если взыскание нужно будет аннулировать.

• нужно: to need
• сохранить: to save
• на случай если: in case

Questions & Answers about Решение по жалобе сохранили на случай, если взыскание нужно будет аннулировать.

Why is сохранили in the plural if there is no subject?

This is a very common Russian pattern.

Сохранили is past tense plural, but Russian often uses the 3rd person plural with no stated subject to mean:

• someone did it
• they did it
• the authorities/people/staff did it

So here it does not necessarily mean a specific they. It is an indefinite-personal construction.

A natural English equivalent is often something like:

• They kept the decision...
• The decision was kept...
• Someone kept the decision...

Russian uses this structure a lot when the doer is unknown, unimportant, or obvious from context.

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Why is it решение по жалобе, not решение жалобы?

Because по жалобе is the normal legal/administrative way to say on the complaint / regarding the complaint / in response to the complaint.

Here:

• решение = decision
• по жалобе = on the complaint / concerning the complaint

The preposition по often means regarding, concerning, or on in official language.

So:

• решение по жалобе = decision on a complaint
• ответ по заявлению = response regarding an application
• заключение по делу = conclusion on the case

Using решение жалобы would not sound right here.

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Why is жалобе in that form?