Breakdown of Их свадьба состоится двенадцатого июля.
их
their
июль
July
двенадцатый
twelfth
состояться
to take place
свадьба
wedding
Questions & Answers about Их свадьба состоится двенадцатого июля.
Why do we use the Genitive case for both words in двенадцатого июля?
To say on a specific date, Russian puts both the day (the ordinal number, like twelfth) and the month into the Genitive case. Двенадцатый becomes двенадцатого, and июль becomes июля. Notice that you do not need a Russian preposition to say 'on' here; the Genitive case does all the work!
How is the letter г pronounced in the word двенадцатого?
It is pronounced like a 'v'. Whenever you see the Genitive endings -ого or -его on adjectives or ordinal numbers, the г always makes a 'v' sound. So, the ending sounds like 'ovo'.
The verb состоится has a present-tense ending. How do we know it means 'will take place' in the future?
The verb состояться (to take place) is a perfective verb. Perfective verbs focus on a completed result and do not have a present tense. When you conjugate a perfective verb using standard present-tense endings (like the -ится used here for 'it'), it automatically forms the future tense.
Свадьба is a feminine word. Why doesn't the word for 'their' (их) change to match its gender?
The third-person possessive words его (his), её (her), and их (their) are frozen. Unlike words like мой (my) or наш (our), which change endings to match the noun they own, их stays exactly the same no matter the gender, number, or case of the noun.
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