Questions & Answers about Мы говорим про школу.
The current lesson is about using о for "about", so why does this sentence use про?
Both о (or об) and про mean "about". While о is used with the Prepositional case, про is a slightly more conversational word for "about" and it takes the Accusative case. You will hear Russians use both almost interchangeably in everyday speech!
Why is the word for school spelled школу here instead of школа or школе?
Because it follows the preposition про, which requires the Accusative case. The dictionary form is школа, a feminine noun ending in -а. In the Accusative case, that -а changes to -у, giving us про школу. If we used о instead, we would need the Prepositional case you are learning now: о школе.
Why does the verb говорим end in -им?
This is the мы (we) form of the verb говорить (to speak or talk). Because говорить belongs to the second conjugation group (verbs usually ending in -ить), its endings use the letter и instead of е, making the "we" form говорим.
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