На репетиции солист два раза повторил припев, а потом начал первый куплет.

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Breakdown of На репетиции солист два раза повторил припев, а потом начал первый куплет.

• повторить: to repeat
• а: and
• первый: first

Questions & Answers about На репетиции солист два раза повторил припев, а потом начал первый куплет.

Why is it на репетиции and not в репетиции?

На репетиции is the normal Russian way to say at rehearsal or during the rehearsal/rehearsal session.

With events, activities, and organized gatherings, Russian often uses на rather than в:

• на концерте = at the concert
• на уроке = in class / at the lesson
• на встрече = at the meeting
• на репетиции = at rehearsal

Here репетиции is in the prepositional case because it follows на in a location/time setting.

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What case is репетиции, and why does it end in -и?

The base form is репетиция. After на when it means location or situation, Russian uses the prepositional case:

• репетиция → на репетиции

This is a very common pattern for feminine nouns ending in -ия:

• лекция → на лекции
• станция → на станции
• репетиция → на репетиции

So the ending -и here shows the prepositional singular.

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