Breakdown of Завтра я хочу встретиться с моим новым менеджером.
я
I
новый
new
мой
my (мой, моя, моё) / mine
хотеть
to want
завтра
tomorrow
с
with (also со)
менеджер
manager
встретиться
to meet / to meet up (with each other)
Questions & Answers about Завтра я хочу встретиться с моим новым менеджером.
Why does встретиться have a -ся at the end?
The -ся ending often makes a verb reflexive (doing an action to yourself), but here it makes it reciprocal. It means the action is mutual: you and the manager are meeting each other. Verbs like this are usually followed by с (with) and the Instrumental case.
Why use встретиться here instead of встречаться?
Встретиться is the perfective form, used for a single, completed action. Since you are talking about one specific meeting happening завтра (tomorrow), you need the perfective verb. Встречаться (imperfective) would be used for regular, repeated meetings.
Why do моим and новым have different endings if they are in the same case?
They are both in the Instrumental case to match the masculine noun менеджером. The standard ending for masculine adjectives in this case is -ым, which gives us новым. However, мой is a special possessive pronoun, and its Instrumental form is моим (ending in -им).
Why does менеджер become менеджером here?
The preposition с (meaning 'with') requires the noun to be in the Instrumental case. For masculine nouns ending in a hard consonant, like менеджер, you form the Instrumental case by adding -ом.
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