Word
Метод преподавания обсуждался на лекции и в аудитории.
Meaning
The teaching method was discussed during the lecture and in the auditorium.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Метод преподавания обсуждался на лекции и в аудитории.
в
in
и
and
лекция
the lecture
аудитория
the auditorium
Questions & Answers about Метод преподавания обсуждался на лекции и в аудитории.
What does обсуждался mean and how is it formed?
обсуждался is the impersonal passive form of обсуждать (to discuss) with the reflexive ending -ся. It translates literally as was discussed, focusing on the action itself rather than who performed it.
Why is метод преподавания in the nominative case here?
In a passive construction with -ся, the direct object of the active sentence becomes the grammatical subject of the passive sentence. Subjects in Russian are in the nominative case, so метод преподавания remains nominative.
Why is преподавания in the genitive case?
преподавания is a noun modifying another noun (метод), expressing “method of teaching.” Russian uses the genitive case to show this kind of relationship (“X of Y”).
What case and preposition are used for лекции and аудитории?
Both лекции and аудитории are in the prepositional case. You use на + prepositional for лекции (an event: “at the lecture”) and в + prepositional for аудитории (a location: “in the auditorium”).
Why instead of , and instead of ?