Breakdown of Мне нужно посмотреть это популярное шоу и новую передачу.
и
and
новый
new
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
посмотреть
to watch (perfective) / to look at (perfective)
мне
to me
нужно
it is necessary
популярный
popular
шоу
show
передача
program (TV/radio broadcast)
Questions & Answers about Мне нужно посмотреть это популярное шоу и новую передачу.
Why does the sentence start with мне instead of я?
In Russian, you don't say "I need" with a normal subject. Instead, you use the dative case to express that something is necessary "to" someone. Мне is the dative form of я, so мне нужно literally means "to me it is necessary."
Why use the perfective verb посмотреть here instead of the imperfective смотреть?
You use the perfective form посмотреть when you want to focus on a completed action. The speaker intends to watch this specific show and program from start to finish, just one time, rather than talking about a general habit of watching TV.
Is это популярное шоу in the nominative or accusative case?
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object being watched. However, for inanimate neuter nouns, the accusative looks exactly like the nominative. Furthermore, шоу is a borrowed foreign word, meaning it never changes its ending in any case!
Why does the ending change to новую передачу?
Unlike the neuter шоу, the word передача (program) is a feminine noun. When it becomes the direct object (accusative case), the feminine noun ending -а changes to -у (передачу), and its matching adjective ending -ая changes to -ую (новую).
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