Breakdown of Стоматолог сделает снимок через час.
час
hour
сделать
to do (perfective) / to make (perfective)
стоматолог
dentist
через
in (after a period of time)
снимок
x-ray
Questions & Answers about Стоматолог сделает снимок через час.
Wait, doesn't через usually mean 'across' or 'through'? How does it mean 'in an hour' here?
You are right that через often means 'across' or 'through' in physical space. But when talking about time, через followed by the Accusative case means 'in' or 'after' a certain amount of time has passed. So через час translates to 'in an hour' or 'an hour from now'.
English says 'take an x-ray', but the Russian uses сделает. Why not use a word for 'take'?
In Russian, you don't 'take' a photo or an x-ray; you 'make' or 'do' it. The perfective verb сделать (to make/do) is the standard action word used with снимок (a shot, photograph, or x-ray).
Since снимок is the direct object (the thing being taken), why didn't its ending change?
The word снимок is actually in the Accusative case here because it is the direct object. However, for masculine inanimate nouns (objects or concepts, not people or animals), the Accusative form looks exactly the same as the Nominative dictionary form. That is why the ending does not change.
Why is the future tense сделает instead of будет делать?
Сделать is a perfective verb, which focuses on the completed result of an action. Since the dentist will complete the action of taking the x-ray, we use the perfective future сделает. Perfective verbs form their future tense just by changing their endings like a present tense verb, without needing the helper word будет.
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