Word
Правление доверило голосование председателю.
Meaning
The board entrusted the voting to the chairperson.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Правление доверило голосование председателю.
голосование
the voting
правление
the governing board
председатель
the chairperson
доверить
to entrust
Questions & Answers about Правление доверило голосование председателю.
Why is доверило neuter singular? I thought правление refers to a group of people.
Because in Russian the verb agrees with the grammatical form of the subject, not with the real-world number of people involved.
Правление is a singular neuter noun, so the past tense verb must also be singular neuter:
- правление доверило
Even though правление means something like the board or the administration, and it consists of several people, grammatically it behaves as one singular noun.
Compare:
- совет решил = the council decided
- правительство объявило = the government announced
- правление доверило = the board entrusted
So доверило is correct because it matches правление, not the people inside it.
What case is голосование, and why is it in that case?