Question 1

What is the dictionary form of доберёмся and why does it mean "will get" instead of "are getting"?

Accepted Answer

The dictionary form is добраться (to get to, to reach). It is a perfective verb, which means it focuses on the result or completion of an action. When you conjugate perfective verbs with present-tense endings, they actually form the future tense. That is why it translates to "we will get" instead of "we are getting".

Question 2

Why does the sentence use туда instead of там for "there"?

Accepted Answer

Russian has different words for "there" depending on whether motion is involved. You use там when talking about a fixed location (being there). You use туда when talking about motion toward a destination (going there). Because the verb involves travelling to a place, we must use the directional word туда.

Question 3

маршрут is a masculine noun. Why does the sentence start with the neuter word Это instead of Этот?

Accepted Answer

When you use the word simply to mean "This is..." or "That is..." to introduce something, you always use the fixed neuter form Это, regardless of the noun's gender. You would only use the masculine Этот if you were attaching it directly to the noun as an adjective, like in the phrase этот сложный маршрут (this difficult route).

Question 4

This lesson covers the dative preposition по. How would we add it to this sentence to say "along this route"?

Accepted Answer

To say you are moving "along" a path or road, you use по followed by the dative case. To add "along this route", you would say по этому маршруту. The preposition по is very commonly used with verbs of motion to show the specific path you are travelling on.

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