Мой брат часто спорит о политике и о спорте.
My brother often argues about politics and about sports.
Breakdown of Мой брат часто спорит о политике и о спорте.
и
and
брат
brother
мой
my / mine
часто
often
о
about (о, об, обо)
спорить
to argue
спорт
sport
политика
politics
Questions & Answers about Мой брат часто спорит о политике и о спорте.
Why do политика and спорт change to о политике and о спорте?
We use the Prepositional case here because they are the topics being argued about. For most feminine words ending in -а (like политика) and masculine words ending in a consonant (like спорт), the Prepositional case ending is -е.
Why do we use о here and not об?
The preposition о (about) only changes to об when the next word starts with a vowel sound (like а, о, у, э, и). Since both политика and спорт start with consonants, we use the standard form о.
Why does the verb спорит end in -ит instead of -ет?
The dictionary form of the verb is спорить (to argue). Because it ends in -ить, it belongs to the second group of verbs (Type II conjugation). When talking about мой брат (he), the ending is -ит, whereas Type I verbs would use -ет.
The English translation says "sports" in the plural. Is спорте plural in Russian?
No, спорте is singular. In Russian, the singular word спорт is used to talk about sports in general. A plural form of the word exists but is very rarely used.
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