Breakdown of Почему я должен выносить мусор? Мой брат обещает делать это вовремя.
это
this / it is
брат
brother
я
I
мой
my / mine
делать
to do
почему
why
должен
must, have to
выносить
to take out
мусор
trash
вовремя
on time
обещать
to promise
Questions & Answers about Почему я должен выносить мусор? Мой брат обещает делать это вовремя.
Why is it должен here instead of должно or должны?
Why use the imperfective verb выносить (to take out) after должен instead of a perfective verb?
The speaker is complaining about the general chore of taking out the trash on a regular basis, not just doing it once right now. Because it is a habitual or repeated action, Russian uses the imperfective verb.
What case is мусор (trash) in? It looks like the dictionary form.
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object receiving the action of the verb выносить. Because мусор is a masculine and inanimate (non-living) noun, its accusative form looks exactly the same as its nominative (dictionary) form.
I recognize the word время (time) at the end of вовремя. How does this word work?
вовремя (written together as one word) is an adverb that means "on time" or "in time". Be careful not to confuse it with the two-word phrase во время, which means "during" and requires the next word to be in the genitive case.
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