Breakdown of После аварии мы везём пациента в больницу.
мы
we
в
in / to (direction)
больница
hospital
пациент
patient
после
after
везти
to transport by vehicle (unidirectional)
авария
accident
Questions & Answers about После аварии мы везём пациента в больницу.
Why do we use везём in this sentence instead of возим?
Везём is a form of везти, the unidirectional verb for transporting someone or something by vehicle. We use it here because the speakers are making one specific, one-way trip to the hospital. If they drove patients to the hospital regularly or made round trips, we would use the multidirectional verb возить (and say возим).
How does the sentence show they are driving, rather than carrying the patient?
That information is built right into the verb. In Russian, везти specifically means transporting by some kind of vehicle (like an ambulance or car). If they were carrying the patient on foot (like on a stretcher without a vehicle), they would use a form of the verb нести.
Why does пациент change to пациента?
The patient is the direct object receiving the action, so it needs the Accusative case. Because пациент is a masculine, animate noun (a living person or animal), its Accusative form looks exactly like its Genitive form, taking the ending -а.
Why is it после аварии with an -и at the end?
The preposition после (after) always requires the noun following it to be in the Genitive case. The word for accident is авария. For feminine nouns ending in -ия, the Genitive ending changes the final -я to an -и, resulting in аварии.
Why do we use в + Accusative (в больницу) for destination, instead of the preposition к?
We use в plus the Accusative case because a hospital is a building or enclosed place they are going inside of. The preposition к (meaning towards or to) is mostly used when going to see a specific person (like going to the doctor) or just approaching an object without entering it.
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