После дождя пришлось снова взять грабли и убрать мокрые сорняки с дорожки.

После usually means after, and when it is used in the sense of time, it takes the genitive case.

So:

• дождь = rain
• после дождя = after the rain

The form дождя is the genitive singular of дождь.

This is a very common pattern:

• после урока = after the lesson
• после работы = after work
• после фильма = after the film

Пришлось comes from the verb прийтись / приходиться, which often means to have to, to be necessary, or to end up having to.

In this sentence, пришлось means something like:

• had to
• it was necessary to
• ended up having to

So После дождя пришлось снова взять грабли... means:

• After the rain, it was necessary to take the rake again...
• more naturally in English: After the rain, I/we had to take the rake again...

A key point: пришлось is often used without a stated subject. Russian does not need to say I or we if the context already makes it clear, or if the sentence is meant to sound impersonal.

Good question. This is because пришлось is being used impersonally.

In impersonal constructions, Russian often uses the neuter singular past form by default:

• пришлось = had to
• удалось = managed to
• повезло = was lucky

There is no real grammatical subject here, so Russian uses the neuter singular form.

Compare:

• Мне пришлось уйти. = I had to leave.
• Нам пришлось ждать. = We had to wait.

Even though мне or нам refers to a person, the verb still stays пришлось.

Because пришлось can be followed by an infinitive to say what had to be done.

Here there are two actions joined by и:

• взять грабли = take the rake
• убрать мокрые сорняки с дорожки = remove the wet weeds from the path

So the structure is:

• пришлось
  • взять
    • и
      • убрать

This is completely normal in Russian. English does the same thing:

• had to take the rake again and remove the wet weeds from the path

Взять is the perfective form, while брать is imperfective.

Here взять is used because the speaker means a single complete action:

• взять грабли = to pick up / take the rake

Russian often uses the perfective infinitive after words like пришлось when talking about a concrete completed action that had to be done.

Similarly, убрать is also perfective:

• убрать сорняки = remove the weeds completely

So the sentence presents the actions as completed tasks:

1. pick up the rake again
2. clear away the weeds

Грабли is one of those Russian nouns that are normally used only in the plural. In English, this is similar to words like scissors or pants, which are grammatically plural even when they refer to one object.

So:

• грабли = a rake / rakes, depending on context

In this sentence, it means a rake, but Russian still uses the plural form.

That is why you get:

• взять грабли = take the rake

not a singular form like грабля, which is not the normal everyday word here.

Because грабли is the direct object of взять, so it is in the accusative case.

For many inanimate plural nouns, the accusative looks exactly like the nominative. That is what happens here.

So:

• nominative: грабли
• accusative: грабли

They look the same, even though the case function is different.

Мокрые сорняки means wet weeds.

Here it is the direct object of убрать, so it is in the accusative plural.

But сорняки is an inanimate noun, and for inanimate plural nouns, the accusative plural is the same as the nominative plural.

So:

• nominative plural: мокрые сорняки
• accusative plural: мокрые сорняки

That is why the form does not change.

Also note agreement:

• сорняки is plural
• therefore the adjective is also plural: мокрые

Because с here means from/off, and in that meaning it normally takes the genitive case.

So:

• дорожка = path, walkway
• с дорожки = from the path / off the path

The form дорожки is the genitive singular.

Compare:

• с пола = from the floor
• со стола = from the table
• с дороги = from the road

So убрать мокрые сорняки с дорожки means remove the wet weeds from the path.

Снова means again.

It tells us that this was not the first time the person had to do it. The rain caused the need to repeat the action.

So:

• пришлось снова взять грабли = had to take the rake again

You could think of the situation as:

• the path had already been cleaned
• then it rained
• now the person has to do the job again

Yes, the subject is implied, not stated.

Russian often leaves out pronouns like я, мы, он, etc. when they are unnecessary. In a sentence with пришлось, the person involved is often understood from context.

Depending on the situation, this could mean:

• I had to
• we had to
• someone had to

If Russian wanted to make the person explicit, it could say:

• Мне пришлось снова взять грабли... = I had to take the rake again...
• Нам пришлось снова взять грабли... = We had to take the rake again...

Without мне / нам, the sentence sounds more general or more context-dependent.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, although different orders can slightly change emphasis.

The given sentence is natural:

• После дождя пришлось снова взять грабли и убрать мокрые сорняки с дорожки.

But other orders are possible, for example:

• После дождя снова пришлось взять грабли и убрать мокрые сорняки с дорожки.
• Мокрые сорняки с дорожки после дождя пришлось снова убрать.

The original version is straightforward and neutral: it first sets the time/context (after the rain), then says what had to be done.

Yes, both are perfective:

• взять = to take, pick up
• убрать = to remove, clear away

The perfective aspect presents each action as a whole completed event.

That fits the meaning well:

• take the rake once
• remove the weeds

If imperfective verbs were used instead, the sentence would sound more like focusing on process, repetition, or ongoing action, which is not the main point here.

So the perfective aspect helps show that these were concrete tasks that had to be carried out.