Word
Мы часто переводим деньги благотворительным фондам и помогаем пожилым людям.
Meaning
We often transfer money to charity funds and help elderly people.
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Breakdown of Мы часто переводим деньги благотворительным фондам и помогаем пожилым людям.
и
and
мы
we
часто
often
деньги
money
Questions & Answers about Мы часто переводим деньги благотворительным фондам и помогаем пожилым людям.
Why do фондам and людям have different endings (-ам vs -ям) if they are both in the Dative plural?
Regular masculine nouns ending in a hard consonant, like фонд (fund), take the hard Dative plural ending -ам. The word люди (people) is plural and takes the soft ending -ям. Both are in the Dative case because they are the receivers of the action (getting money and getting help).
How do the adjectives благотворительным and пожилым match the Dative plural nouns?
In the Dative plural, adjectives take the ending -ым if they have a hard stem, or -им if they have a soft stem. Both благотворительный (charitable) and пожилой (elderly) are hard-stem adjectives, so they drop their normal endings and add -ым to become благотворительным and пожилым.
I learned that переводить means to translate languages. Does it also mean to transfer money?
Yes! While переводить is the standard verb for translating languages, it is also the word used for transferring money. When you transfer money to someone or something, the receiver is always in the Dative case, just like when you give a gift.
Why is пожилым людям (elderly people) in the Dative case? Shouldn't the people we help be in the Accusative case?