Breakdown of Секретарь каждый день напоминает нашему строгому директору о встрече.
день
day
наш
our
о
about (о, об, обо)
встреча
meeting
директор
director
секретарь
secretary
каждый
every
строгий
strict
напоминать
to remind
Questions & Answers about Секретарь каждый день напоминает нашему строгому директору о встрече.
Why is нашему строгому директору in the dative case?
The verb напоминать (to remind) directs its action towards a person. In Russian, you remind something "to" someone, so the person receiving the reminder (директор) and the words describing him (наш строгий) must take the dative case.
How do the dative endings for нашему and строгому work here?
The base forms are the masculine words наш (our) and строгий (strict). In the dative case, possessive pronouns like наш take the -ему ending, becoming нашему. Standard adjectives like строгий take the -ому ending, becoming строгому.
Why doesn't каждый день (every day) use a preposition or a special time case?
It actually is in a specific case! Recurring time expressions answering "how often?" use the accusative case without a preposition. Because день is a masculine inanimate noun, its accusative form (and the form of its adjective каждый) looks exactly identical to the basic nominative form.
Why does the sentence end with о встрече rather than just встреча?
To say what you are reminding someone "about", you use the preposition о plus the prepositional case. The dictionary form is the feminine noun встреча (meeting). Because it follows о, the final -а changes to -е.
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