Breakdown of Сейчас скорая везёт пациента в больницу.
сейчас
now
в
in / to (direction)
больница
hospital
пациент
patient
скорая
ambulance
везти
to transport by vehicle (unidirectional)
Questions & Answers about Сейчас скорая везёт пациента в больницу.
Why use везёт here instead of возит?
Везёт is the unidirectional verb for transporting someone or something by vehicle. Because this action is happening сейчас (right now), the ambulance is making a single, one-way trip to a specific destination. If it were a general, repeated habit like 'Ambulances transport patients', you would use the multidirectional verb возит.
Why is the word for 'ambulance' just скорая, which looks like an adjective?
Why does пациента end in '-а' if it is the direct object?
Since the patient is the direct object being transported, the word must be in the accusative case. For masculine nouns that are 'animate' (living people or animals), the accusative case takes the exact same endings as the genitive case. Therefore, the dictionary form пациент adds an '-а' to become пациента.
Why is it в больницу and not в больнице?
When you are talking about motion towards a destination (answering 'to where?'), you use the preposition в with the accusative case, so the feminine noun больница changes to больницу. You would only use the prepositional case в больнице to describe a static location, such as if the patient were already resting 'in the hospital'.
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