Breakdown of Кто возит оборудование и носилки в эту больницу?
и
and
кто
who / whoever
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
в
in / to (direction)
больница
hospital
возить
to transport by vehicle (multidirectional)
оборудование
equipment
носилки
stretcher
Questions & Answers about Кто возит оборудование и носилки в эту больницу?
Why is возит used here instead of везёт?
Возить is the multidirectional verb for transporting by vehicle. This sentence asks about a general, repeated action or responsibility (who usually transports this), rather than a single trip happening right now. If you were asking who is driving the equipment right this moment, you would use the unidirectional verb везёт.
Why is the verb возит in the singular form? What if a whole team transports the equipment?
In Russian, the question word кто (who) is grammatically singular and always takes a verb in the third-person singular (the he/she/it form), regardless of whether you expect the answer to be one person or many.
Are the words оборудование and носилки in the Nominative or Accusative case here?
They are in the Accusative case because they are the direct objects (the things being transported). Because both words refer to inanimate objects, their Accusative forms look exactly like their Nominative forms. Note that носилки (stretchers) is a word that only exists in the plural, much like the English word scissors!
Why does the sentence use в эту больницу instead of в этой больнице?
Because there is motion towards a destination. When you describe moving to a place, the preposition в requires the Accusative case, so эта больница changes to эту больницу. You would use the Prepositional case в этой больнице if you were talking about where something is already located, meaning inside the hospital.
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