Breakdown of Проверьте кадастровый номер не позднее чем сегодня.
сегодня
today
проверить
to check
не позднее чем
no later than; at the latest
кадастровый номер
the cadastral number
Questions & Answers about Проверьте кадастровый номер не позднее чем сегодня.
Why is the verb Проверьте and not Проверяйте?
Проверьте is the perfective imperative of проверить.
In Russian, the perfective imperative usually means do this once / complete the action. That fits this sentence, because the speaker wants one completed result: check the cadastral number.
- Проверьте = check it / make sure it gets checked
- Проверяйте = keep checking / check regularly / be checking
So here:
- Проверьте кадастровый номер... = Check the cadastral number...
- Проверяйте кадастровый номер... would sound more like a repeated instruction, for example in a manual: Always check the cadastral number...
Why does Проверьте end in -ьте?
The ending -ьте marks the imperative in a polite or plural form.
Russian imperative forms can distinguish:
- Проверь = singular informal, said to one person you address with ты
- Проверьте = plural or polite, said to:
- more than one person, or
- one person formally, with вы
So this sentence is either:
- a polite instruction to one person, or
- an instruction to several people
This is very common in notices, official instructions, customer service language, and written requests.
Why is кадастровый номер not in some obvious object case form?