Breakdown of Папа полил вафлю сиропом и сказал, что на этот раз завтрак получился особенно вкусным.
вкусный
tasty
и
and
сказать
to say
что
that
Questions & Answers about Папа полил вафлю сиропом и сказал, что на этот раз завтрак получился особенно вкусным.
Why is полил used here, and not поливал?
Полил is the perfective past form of полить. It presents the action as a completed whole: Dad poured syrup on the waffle once, and that action is finished.
If the sentence had поливал, that would be imperfective, suggesting an ongoing, repeated, or background action, something more like was pouring or used to pour.
So here, полил fits the idea of a single completed action in a sequence:
- Папа полил... и сказал...
- Dad poured ... and said ...
Why is вафлю spelled that way? What case is it?
Вафлю is the accusative singular of вафля.
The noun is the direct object of полил: it is the thing that got covered with syrup.
Cases here:
- вафля = nominative singular
- вафлю = accusative singular
Because полить answers what? here, Russian uses the accusative:
- полить что? → вафлю
Why is сиропом in the instrumental case?