Questions & Answers about Такси едет к вокзалу.
Why do we use к here instead of на (like на вокзал)?
The preposition к means "towards" or "up to," and it always takes the Dative case. If you say на вокзал (using the Accusative case), it implies the taxi is going to pull right into or onto the station itself. Using к вокзалу simply means the taxi is heading towards the station building as its destination.
Why does the word вокзал end in -у?
Because the preposition к always forces the word following it into the Dative case. For regular masculine nouns that end in a consonant, like вокзал, you form the Dative by adding -у, making it вокзалу.
Could we use идёт instead of едет for "is going"?
No, because едет is a verb of motion specifically used for going by a vehicle, like a taxi. The verb идёт is for going on foot. We use едет rather than ездит here because the taxi is making a single, one-way trip that is happening right now.
Does the word такси change its ending in different cases?
No. Такси is a borrowed foreign word. In Russian, many borrowed words ending in a vowel are indeclinable, meaning they keep the exact same form no matter what grammatical case is required by the sentence.
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