На катке я замёрз и решил поехать домой.

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• на: at
• и: and
• поехать: to go

Questions & Answers about На катке я замёрз и решил поехать домой.

Why is it на катке, not в катке?

Russian uses different prepositions depending on how a place is conceptualized.

With каток (ice rink), Russian normally uses на, not в:

• на катке = at the ice rink / on the rink

This is similar to how Russian says:

• на стадионе = at the stadium
• на концерте = at the concert
• на работе = at work

So this is something you largely learn as a standard collocation: быть на катке.

What case is катке, and why does it have the ending -е?

На катке uses the prepositional case.

The noun is:

• каток = ice rink

After на when it means at/on/in a place, Russian usually takes the prepositional:

• каток → на катке

This is why the ending changes from -ок to -ке.

So:

• каток = nominative
• на катке = prepositional, meaning at the rink

Why is the verb замёрз, and what exactly does it mean here?