По вечерам я люблю перечитывать этот роман.

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Breakdown of По вечерам я люблю перечитывать этот роман.

• любить: to love
• вечер: the evening
• этот: this

Questions & Answers about По вечерам я люблю перечитывать этот роман.

Why is it по вечерам and not just вечером?

По вечерам is a very common Russian way to express a habitual/repeated time: in the evenings, every evening, on evenings in general.

• по вечерам = in the evenings / evenings
• вечером = in the evening / this evening / during the evening

So in this sentence, по вечерам emphasizes that this is something the speaker likes to do regularly, not just once.

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What case is вечерам, and why?

Вечерам is dative plural.

The preposition по often takes the dative, and one of its common uses is to describe something happening at repeated times:

• по утрам = in the mornings
• по вечерам = in the evenings
• по выходным = on weekends

So this is a fixed, very useful pattern: по + dative plural for repeated time expressions.

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Why is the verb перечитывать and not читать?

Because перечитывать means to reread, not just to read.

Compare:

• читать = to read
• перечитывать = to reread, to read again

The prefix пере- here adds the idea of again. So the sentence is specifically about reading the same novel again and again.

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