Breakdown of Журналист приглашает популярных певиц и моделей на интервью.
и
and
на
on, at / by (transport) / to (a place) / to (in answer to)
журналист
journalist
приглашать
to invite
популярный
popular
интервью
interview
модель
model
певица
singer (f)
Questions & Answers about Журналист приглашает популярных певиц и моделей на интервью.
Why do популярных, певиц, and моделей look like they are in the Genitive case instead of Accusative?
The verb приглашает (invites) takes the Accusative case for the people being invited. However, because singers and models are alive (animate nouns), Russian uses their Genitive plural forms for the Accusative plural. This applies to both the nouns and the adjective популярных describing them.
Why does певиц have no ending at all?
The dictionary form is певица (a female singer). To form the Genitive plural (which we need here for the animate Accusative), feminine nouns that end in -а usually drop that final vowel entirely. This is called a zero ending.
How did the word for models change to моделей?
The singular dictionary form is модель, which is a feminine noun ending in a soft sign (-ь). For nouns ending in a soft sign, the Genitive plural (and animate Accusative plural) ending is -ей.
Why do we use на instead of в for going to an interview, and what case is интервью here?
We use на because an interview is an event or an activity, not a physical building you go inside. It is followed by the Accusative case to show the destination. The word интервью is a borrowed foreign word, so it never changes its spelling, but grammatically it is in the Accusative case here.
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