Breakdown of Не стоит выбрасывать чек: он может пригодиться.
не
not
чек
the receipt
он
it
стоить
to be worth
Questions & Answers about Не стоит выбрасывать чек: он может пригодиться.
What does не стоит + infinitive mean grammatically, and who is the “subject”?
Не стоит выбрасывать… is an impersonal construction meaning “it’s not worth (doing)” / “you shouldn’t (do it)”.
There is no grammatical subject in Russian here; it’s like English “It’s not worth throwing away the receipt.”
Why is it выбрасывать (imperfective) and not выбросить (perfective)?
With не стоит + infinitive, Russian often uses the imperfective to give general advice about an action as a type of behavior: “don’t go throwing it away / it’s not worth throwing away.”
Выбросить would sound more like a single, specific act (“don’t throw it away (this one time)”), and it’s less typical with не стоит in neutral advice.
What case is чек in, and why?
Чек is direct object of выбрасывать, so it’s in the accusative.
For many masculine inanimate nouns like чек, accusative = nominative, so it looks unchanged: чек.
What exactly does чек mean here? Is it “check” like a restaurant bill?