Breakdown of В октябре этот рейс часто опаздывает.
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
часто
often
в
on / during (a time period)
опаздывать
to be late
октябрь
October
рейс
flight (scheduled trip or route)
Questions & Answers about В октябре этот рейс часто опаздывает.
Why does the word for October end in -е here?
To say 'in a month', Russian uses the preposition в followed by the Prepositional case. The dictionary form for October is октябрь. Because it is a masculine noun, its Prepositional ending is -е, making it в октябре.
What happened to the soft sign (-ь) at the end of октябрь?
When adding the Prepositional case ending -е to a masculine noun that ends in a soft sign, the soft sign is replaced by the new ending. So октябрь becomes октябре. You will see this happen with all Russian months that end in a soft sign, like ноябрь becoming в ноябре.
Why is этот рейс in the Nominative case if it comes right after a prepositional phrase?
Even though the sentence starts with в октябре, the main subject of the sentence is still этот рейс (this flight). Because the flight is the thing performing the action, it stays in the Nominative (dictionary) case. Russian word order is flexible, so the subject doesn't have to be at the very start of the sentence.
In English, 'late' is an adjective. Is опаздывает an adjective too?
No, опаздывает is a verb! In Russian, 'to be late' is expressed as an action using the verb опаздывать. The word опаздывает is the present tense verb form for 'he/she/it', which matches our singular masculine subject, рейс.
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