На этот раз я не забыл проездной дома.

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Breakdown of На этот раз я не забыл проездной дома.

• дома: at home
• не: not
• забыть: to forget

Questions & Answers about На этот раз я не забыл проездной дома.

What does на этот раз mean, and why is it built that way?

На этот раз means this time.

It is a set expression:

• раз = time; occasion
• этот = this
• на этот раз = literally something like for this occasion / this time

Russian often uses fixed prepositional phrases for time expressions, and this is one of the most common ones.

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Why is it забыл, not забыла or some other form?

Забыл is the past tense masculine singular form of забыть.

In Russian past tense, the verb agrees with the subject in gender and number:

• я забыл = I forgot if the speaker is male
• я забыла = I forgot if the speaker is female
• мы забыли = we forgot

So this sentence suggests that the speaker is male. If a woman were speaking, it would be:

На этот раз я не забыла проездной дома.

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Why is the verb забыть used here, and not забывать?