Breakdown of Друзья провожают нас на вокзале.
мы
we
друг
friend
на
on, at / by (transport) / to (a place) / to (in answer to)
вокзал
train station
провожать
to see off
Questions & Answers about Друзья провожают нас на вокзале.
Why is провожают (are seeing off) used in a lesson about departure verbs like уезжать?
When someone leaves or departs (уезжает), someone else often sees them off. The verb провожать is the standard Russian word for accompanying someone to their point of departure, like a train station or airport, making it essential vocabulary for trips.
Why do we use на вокзале instead of в вокзале?
The word вокзал (train station) is one of those classic exception nouns that requires the preposition на instead of в to mean "at" or "in". Here, it takes the Prepositional case ending -е because it answers the question "where?".
Why is the word нас used here instead of мы?
Нас is the Accusative case of мы (we). We need the Accusative case because "we" are the direct object receiving the action—the friends are seeing us off.
Друзья doesn't look like a normal masculine plural. How does this word work?
The noun друг (friend) has a highly irregular plural form. Instead of simply adding -и or -ы like most masculine nouns, the whole stem changes to друзья. This is a great word to just memorize as an exception!
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