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Начальница пообещала выплатить мне премию завтра утром.
Meaning
The (female) boss promised to pay me a bonus tomorrow morning.
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Breakdown of Начальница пообещала выплатить мне премию завтра утром.
завтра
tomorrow
утром
in the morning
пообещать
to promise
начальница
the female boss
Questions & Answers about Начальница пообещала выплатить мне премию завтра утром.
Why is it Начальница and not Начальник?
Начальница is the feminine form of начальник (boss/manager). The sentence uses feminine forms throughout (пообещала), so the speaker is talking about a female boss.
- masculine: Начальник пообещал…
- feminine: Начальница пообещала…
What case is начальница in, and why?
Начальница is in the nominative case because it’s the subject (the person doing the action: she promised).
Why is the verb пообещала (with по-) used instead of обещала?
пообещала is usually perfective and typically means a single, completed act of promising (she made the promise).
обещала is imperfective and can sound like an ongoing/repeated idea (she used to promise / she was promising / she kept promising), depending on context.
Why does пообещала end in -а?