Word
После тренировки мы взяли по бутылке воды.
Meaning
After training, we each took a bottle of water.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about После тренировки мы взяли по бутылке воды.
Why is тренировки in the genitive case after после?
Because после always takes the genitive.
- после = after
- dictionary form: тренировка = training / workout
- genitive singular: тренировки
So:
- после тренировки = after the workout / after training
This is a fixed grammar pattern in Russian:
после + genitive
Examples:
- после урока = after the lesson
- после работы = after work
- после фильма = after the film
What does взяли mean here, and why is it plural?
Взяли is the past tense plural form of взять, which is a perfective verb meaning to take.
It is plural because the subject is мы = we.
So:
- я взял / взяла = I took
- ты взял / взяла = you took
- мы взяли = we took
In this sentence, взяли can sound natural in English as:
- we took
- we got
- we grabbed
depending on context.