Breakdown of Когда мы идём в кино?
мы
we
в
in / to (direction)
идти
to go (on foot) / to proceed, go (of a process)
кино
cinema
когда
when
Questions & Answers about Когда мы идём в кино?
Does the question word когда need a preposition like 'at' or 'on'?
No, когда stands alone to mean 'when'. You will use prepositions like в when you answer the question with a day of the week, but the question word itself does not need one.
Why are we using the present tense verb идём for something happening in the future?
Just like in English ('When are we going?'), Russian often uses the present tense of motion verbs to talk about definite plans in the near future.
The lesson is about using в for days of the week. Is that how it is used in в кино?
Not quite! While you do use в plus the Accusative case for days of the week (like в понедельник for 'on Monday'), here в plus the Accusative is used to show your destination ('to the cinema').
If в кино uses the Accusative case, why didn't the ending of кино change?
кино is a borrowed foreign word. In Russian, many foreign nouns ending in -о, -е, or -и are indeclinable. This means their spellings never change, no matter what grammatical case they are in.
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