Breakdown of Нам надо как-нибудь заказать пиццу.
пицца
pizza
нам
to us
надо
must, need to
заказать
to order
как-нибудь
somehow / sometime (in some way)
Questions & Answers about Нам надо как-нибудь заказать пиццу.
Wait, doesn't как-нибудь usually mean "somehow"? Why is it translated as "sometime" here?
You're right that как means "how", and как-нибудь literally translates to "somehow" or "any way at all". However, in everyday Russian, как-нибудь is very frequently used to mean "sometime" or "one of these days" when you are casually proposing a future plan without setting a specific date.
Why does the sentence start with нам (to us) instead of мы (we)?
The word надо (need to / it is necessary) is an impersonal word. Russian doesn't say "We need", but rather "To us it is necessary". Because of this, the person who needs something must be in the Dative case. So, the nominative мы becomes the dative нам.
Why use the perfective verb заказать instead of the imperfective заказывать?
The speaker is talking about a single, specific action they want to complete in the future (ordering pizza once). For one-time actions with a focused result, you use the perfective aspect (заказать). If they wanted to say "We need to order pizza every Friday", they would use the imperfective заказывать.
Just to review, why does пицца change to пиццу here?
Пицца is the direct object of the sentence—it is the thing being ordered. For feminine nouns ending in -а, the Accusative case changes that ending to -у.
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