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Questions & Answers about Петро дивиться музичний фільм.
What is the overall sentence structure in "Петро дивиться музичний фільм"?
The sentence uses a typical Subject-Verb-Object order. "Петро" is the subject (in the nominative case), "дивиться" is the verb in the third person singular present tense, and "музичний фільм" is the object (in the accusative case, which for an inanimate masculine noun looks the same as the nominative).
What does the verb дивиться mean and in what form is it used here?
The verb дивиться comes from the infinitive дивитися and means "to watch" or "is watching." In this sentence, it is in the present tense, third person singular, indicating that Petro is currently engaged in watching a musical film.
What is the role of the reflexive particle in the verb дивитися?
The ending -ся (which appears as part of дивитися/дивиться) is a reflexive particle. Although reflexive particles often indicate that the subject is acting upon itself, in this case, it is part of a fixed verbal form. It distinguishes дивитися from similar verbs and is necessary for conveying the meaning "to watch" or "to look at" in Ukrainian.
How do the adjective музичний and the noun фільм agree in this sentence?
In Ukrainian, adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case. Here, фільм is a masculine inanimate noun, and музичний is the masculine singular form of the adjective, properly matching the noun in gender and case (nominative/accusative for inanimate nouns).
What grammatical case is фільм in, and why does its form appear unchanged from the nominative?
Фільм functions as the direct object of the sentence and is in the accusative case. In Ukrainian, for inanimate masculine nouns, the accusative case is identical to the nominative case in form, which is why фільм appears as it does.
Is the word order in Ukrainian fixed, and could it be rearranged for emphasis?
While Ukrainian often follows an SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) order—as seen in this sentence—the language has a rich inflectional system that allows for flexible word order. Rearranging the order can emphasize different parts of the sentence, but the SVO configuration is standard and neutral.