Breakdown of Носить корзины по этой тропинке очень тяжело.
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
очень
very
по
along, around
носить
to carry (multidirectional on foot)
Questions & Answers about Носить корзины по этой тропинке очень тяжело.
Why use the multidirectional verb носить instead of нести here?
The sentence is talking about the general action of carrying baskets along the path (perhaps back and forth, or as a repeated chore). If you were talking about carrying baskets in one direction on a single, specific trip right now, you would use the unidirectional verb нести.
In English, "carrying" is an "-ing" word. Why does Russian use the infinitive verb носить?
In Russian, when you talk about an action in general—like saying a certain activity is hard, easy, or interesting—you use the infinitive. Think of the sentence as literally saying "To carry baskets... is very hard."
Why is "this path" written as этой тропинке?
It is in the dative case. The preposition по requires the dative case when it means "along" or "down" a surface. The basic dictionary forms are эта (this) and тропинка (path), which change to этой тропинке in the dative.
Is корзины (baskets) in the nominative or accusative case here?
It's in the accusative case because the baskets are the direct object (the things being carried). However, for inanimate nouns (non-living things), the accusative plural form is identical to the nominative plural form, so the word doesn't change its spelling here.
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