Breakdown of Мы ездим на реку каждый день.
день
day
мы
we
на
on, at / by (transport) / to (a place) / to (in answer to)
каждый
every
ездить
to ride, go by vehicle (multidirectional)
река
river
Questions & Answers about Мы ездим на реку каждый день.
Why do we use ездим here instead of едем or ходим?
Ездим comes from ездить, which means making regular or repeated round trips by vehicle. We use it here because каждый день tells us it is a habit, not a one-time trip happening right now (which would be едем). We use a vehicle verb instead of ходим (walking) because we are taking transport.
Why is it на реку and not в реку?
In Russian, open spaces and natural bodies of water take the preposition на to mean "to". If you said в реку, it would mean you are driving your vehicle directly into the water!
Why does the word for river change from река to реку?
We use the Accusative case for the destination of our motion. For feminine nouns ending in -а, the ending changes to -у, so река becomes реку.
Does the phrase каждый день change its endings here?
It is actually in the Accusative case, which is used to show how often something happens. However, because каждый and день are masculine, inanimate words, their Accusative form looks exactly the same as their basic dictionary form.
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