Questions & Answers about Твой брат всегда спешит.
The dictionary form of the verb is спешить. Why does it end in -ит in this sentence?
Because брат (brother) is a 'he', we need the third-person singular form. Спешить belongs to the second conjugation, which includes most verbs ending in -ить. To make the 'he/she/it' form for these verbs, we drop the -ить and add -ит, giving us спешит.
Does the и in спешит sound like the usual Russian 'ee' sound?
No, it actually sounds like the harder 'ы' sound. The Russian letter ш is always pronounced hard. However, a major Russian spelling rule states that you can never write ы after the letters ш, ж, ч, or щ. Because of this rule, we must spell the ending as -ит, even though it sounds like '-ыт'.
Why do we use твой for 'your' instead of твоя?
Possessive words like 'your' have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Since брат is a masculine noun, we use the masculine form твой. If we were talking about a feminine noun like sister (сестра), we would use твоя.
The translation says 'is always hurrying'. Does Russian have a separate tense for 'hurries'?
No, Russian only has one present tense. The verb спешит can mean both 'hurries' (a general fact) and 'is hurrying' (happening right now). English forces us to pick one, but Russian uses the same form for both!
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