Во время пожара нужно действовать спокойно.

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Breakdown of Во время пожара нужно действовать спокойно.

• нужно: to need
• во время: during
• действовать: to act

Questions & Answers about Во время пожара нужно действовать спокойно.

Why is it во время, not just в время?

Во is a pronunciation-friendly variant of в. Russian often uses во before certain consonant combinations to make the phrase easier to say.

So:

• во время = during
• not в время

This is a fixed, very common expression, so it is best learned as a chunk: во время + genitive.

Why is it пожара, not пожар?

Because во время requires the genitive case.

The noun пожар means fire in the nominative form. After во время, it changes to the genitive:

• пожар → пожара

So:

• во время пожара = during a fire / during the fire

This is the same pattern you see in many time expressions in Russian:

• во время урока = during the lesson
• во время войны = during the war

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