Word
Мой муж покупает новый шампунь каждый месяц.
Meaning
My husband buys a new shampoo every month.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Мой муж покупает новый шампунь каждый месяц.
новый
new
мой
my / mine
покупать
to buy
муж
husband
Questions & Answers about Мой муж покупает новый шампунь каждый месяц.
Why is there no preposition before каждый месяц (every month)?
In Russian, to say you do something like 'every day' or 'every month', you do not need a preposition. You just use the word каждый (every) followed by the time word in the bare Accusative case.
If каждый месяц is in the Accusative case, why doesn't its ending change?
The word месяц (month) is a masculine inanimate noun. For masculine things (not people or animals), the Accusative case is identical to the Nominative (dictionary) case. Because of this, the modifier каждый also keeps its dictionary form.
The word шампунь ends in a soft sign (-ь). Doesn't that make it feminine?
Since новый шампунь is the direct object being bought, why isn't it taking an Accusative case ending like -ую?
It actually is in the Accusative case! Because шампунь is a masculine inanimate object, its Accusative form does not change from the dictionary form. If it were feminine, the adjective would change to новую, but as a masculine object, it stays новый шампунь.
Why do we use the verb (imperfective) instead of its perfective pair?