Breakdown of Я сообщу тебе план по телефону.
я
I
телефон
phone
план
plan
тебе
to you (informal)
по
by means of, using
сообщить
to inform
Questions & Answers about Я сообщу тебе план по телефону.
Why do we use по телефону instead of the instrumental case to mean "by phone"?
In Russian, the preposition по paired with the dative case is the standard way to express communicating through a medium or channel. You will see this often with methods of communication, like по почте (by mail) or по скайпу (over Skype).
Why does сообщу translate to the future tense "I will let you know"?
The word сообщу is the "I" form of the perfective verb сообщить (to inform). Perfective verbs focus on the result or completion of an action, so they do not have a present tense. When you conjugate them with standard present-tense endings, they automatically express the future tense.
Why is the pronoun тебе used here instead of тебя?
The verb сообщить requires the dative case to show to whom the information is being given. тебе is the dative form of ты, so it literally means "to you".
What case is план in here? It looks like the regular dictionary form.
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object (the thing you are communicating). Because план is a masculine inanimate (non-living) noun, its accusative form is identical to its nominative (dictionary) form.
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