Breakdown of В отсутствие землевладельца уточнение границ продолжили.
Questions & Answers about В отсутствие землевладельца уточнение границ продолжили.
В отсутствие is a fixed formal expression meaning in the absence of.
It works almost like a set prepositional phrase:
- в отсутствие кого? чего? = in the absence of someone/something
So:
- в отсутствие землевладельца = in the absence of the landowner
Learners often expect в отсутствии because в often goes with the prepositional case, but in this expression Russian normally uses the fixed form в отсутствие. It is common in official, legal, and administrative language.
Because the expression в отсутствие requires the genitive:
- в отсутствие кого? чего?
- землевладельца = genitive singular of землевладелец
So the phrase literally follows the pattern:
- in the absence of whom? → of the landowner
This is not because землевладелец is the object of the main verb. It belongs only to the phrase в отсутствие землевладельца.