Questions & Answers about Мы сейчас договариваемся с новой компанией.
The lesson mentions договориться, but the word here is договариваемся. Why are they so different?
Договориться is the perfective verb, meaning "to come to an agreement" (a completed result). The verb in this sentence is договариваемся, which comes from its imperfective partner verb договариваться. Because the action is happening right now (сейчас), we need the imperfective to show the ongoing process of "trying to reach an agreement" — which translates naturally as "negotiating".
How does the -ся ending work in договариваемся?
Here, the -ся ending makes the verb reciprocal. It shows that the action is mutual, happening between two or more parties. It's not just one person deciding something; it's multiple people coming to an agreement with each other.
Why is it с новой компанией and not just новую компанию?
Reciprocal verbs that describe doing something with someone else (like meeting, arguing, or negotiating) require the preposition с (with) followed by the Instrumental case. Since we are negotiating with the new company, we put новая компания into the Instrumental case: с новой компанией.
Why does the adjective новой end in -ой, but the noun компанией ends in -ей? Shouldn't their endings match?