Breakdown of Возьмите ваш паспорт и билет.
и
and
ваш
your [formal/plural]
билет
ticket
паспорт
passport
взять
to take / to adopt
Questions & Answers about Возьмите ваш паспорт и билет.
How does the ending of Возьмите match what we are learning about polite commands?
The -ите ending shows that this is a formal or plural command. If you were speaking informally to one friend, you would drop the -те and just say возьми.
The dictionary word for "to take" is взять. Where does the возьм- part in Возьмите come from?
The verb взять is irregular. When making commands or future tense forms, its core part (the stem) changes to возьм-. Since "take this" is such a common instruction, it is easiest to just memorize возьмите as a set word for now.
We are telling someone to take these objects, so why didn't the endings of паспорт and билет change?
The things being taken are the direct objects of the sentence, so they are in the accusative case. However, for masculine, non-living things (inanimate nouns) like паспорт and билет, the accusative case looks exactly the same as their basic dictionary forms.
Why do we use the singular ваш instead of the plural ваши, since there are two items (a passport and a ticket)?
In Russian, a possessive word like ваш usually matches the gender and number of the noun directly next to it. Since паспорт is a singular masculine noun, we use the singular masculine form ваш. You do not need to make it plural just because another item is added afterward.
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