Breakdown of Дети бегают в парке.
парк
park
в
in / to (direction)
бегать
to run (multidirectional)
дети
children
Questions & Answers about Дети бегают в парке.
Why is the verb бегают used here instead of another word for running?
The verb бегают comes from бегать, which is a multidirectional verb of motion. Just like ходить (to walk around), it is used here because the children are running around in different directions as a general activity, rather than running toward one specific destination.
What is the singular form of дети?
The singular word for child is ребёнок. This is a highly irregular noun in Russian where the plural form, дети (children), looks completely different from the singular.
Why does парк have an -е at the end in this sentence?
Because the children are already inside the park running around, we use the Prepositional case to show location, adding -е to the dictionary form парк. If they were running to the park as a destination, we would use a different case and say в парк.
Is бегают a Type 1 or Type 2 verb?
бегать is a standard Type 1 (First Conjugation) verb. You can tell because the infinitive ends in -ать and the form for they (они) takes the regular ending -ют (after a vowel, though here we see -ут after a consonant stem in similar verbs, for this one it is бегают). Wait, let's keep it simple: it takes the standard -ют ending for Type 1 verbs.