Общее собрание начнётся сегодня.

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Breakdown of Общее собрание начнётся сегодня.

• начинаться: to begin
• общее собрание: the general meeting

Questions & Answers about Общее собрание начнётся сегодня.

Why is общее in the neuter form?

Because it agrees with собрание, and собрание is a neuter singular noun.

• общий = the dictionary form, masculine singular
• общее = neuter singular nominative

So общее собрание means general meeting or general assembly, with the adjective matching the noun in gender, number, and case.

What case is общее собрание in?

It is in the nominative case.

That is because общее собрание is the subject of the sentence — it is the thing that will begin.

• общее = nominative neuter singular
• собрание = nominative neuter singular

Why is it собрание and not собрания?

Here, the noun is singular nominative, so the form is собрание.

Собрания could be:

• genitive singular
• nominative plural
• accusative plural

But in this sentence we need a singular subject: The meeting will begin today, so собрание is the correct form.