Breakdown of Моя сестра любит гостить в деревне.
сестра
sister
мой
my / mine
любить
to love, to like
в
in / to (direction)
Questions & Answers about Моя сестра любит гостить в деревне.
Since this lesson is about arriving and visiting, why do we use гостить here instead of a motion verb like приехать?
The verb гостить describes the continuous state of staying somewhere as a guest. Verbs of motion with the при- prefix, like приехать, focus specifically on the action of arriving. If you wanted to say she arrives to visit, you would use a motion verb phrase like приезжать в гости. Here, the sentence is about enjoying the actual time spent staying there.
Why is it в деревне ending in -е instead of в деревню?
We use the Prepositional case here because the action answers the question where? (location). The feminine noun деревня (village) changes its -я ending to -е. If the sentence involved motion toward the village, such as arriving there, we would use the Accusative case and say в деревню instead.
Why doesn't the verb гостить change its ending to match сестра?
It stays in the infinitive form because it immediately follows another conjugated verb, любит (loves). Just like in English (loves to stay), when you have two verbs working together to describe a single idea, only the first one changes to match the subject.
Is the verb гостить related to the Russian word for guest?