Breakdown of В ноябре плохая погода, поэтому никто не хочет ехать в отпуск.
не
not
плохой
bad
хотеть
to want
погода
the weather
ехать
to go (by vehicle)
в
on / during (a time period)
поэтому
so (therefore)
никто
nobody
отпуск
vacation
ноябрь
November
Questions & Answers about В ноябре плохая погода, поэтому никто не хочет ехать в отпуск.
Why is it в ноябре instead of just в ноябрь?
To say 'in a certain month', Russian uses the preposition в plus the Prepositional case. The dictionary form ноябрь (November) ends in a soft sign (-ь). To make it Prepositional, that -ь changes to an -е, giving us в ноябре.
Why does the sentence say никто не хочет ('nobody doesn't want')? Isn't that a double negative?
Yes, and that is exactly how Russian works! Whenever you use a negative word like никто (nobody) or ничего (nothing), you must also put не before the verb. Unlike English, Russian requires these double negatives.
Why use ехать for 'to go' instead of идти?
Russian has different verbs for going by foot (идти) versus going by vehicle (ехать). Because going on vacation almost always involves taking a car, train, or plane, ехать is the natural choice here.
The sentence has в ноябре and в отпуск. Why do they use different cases after the same preposition в?
The preposition в triggers different cases depending on its meaning. When answering 'when?' (in November) or 'where?', it takes the Prepositional case (в ноябре). But when showing movement toward a destination like going on vacation, it takes the Accusative case (в отпуск). Because отпуск is a masculine inanimate noun, its Accusative form looks exactly like its Nominative dictionary form.
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