Из-за спешки я забыл проездной дома.

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Breakdown of Из-за спешки я забыл проездной дома.

• дома: at home
• забыть: to forget
• из-за: because of

Questions & Answers about Из-за спешки я забыл проездной дома.

Why is it из-за спешки, and what case is спешки?

Из-за means because of and it requires the genitive case.

The noun спешка becomes спешки in the genitive singular:

• спешка = haste, rush
• из-за спешки = because of haste / because I was in a hurry

So this phrase literally works like because of rushing / because of the hurry.

What exactly does спешка mean here?

Спешка means haste, rush, or being in a hurry. It is a noun, not a verb.

So из-за спешки does not mean while hurrying word-for-word, but rather because of haste or because I was rushed.

It is a very natural way in Russian to explain that something happened because someone was in a hurry.

Why is it забыл, not забывал?