Breakdown of Он переезжает в другой город.
он
he / it (for a masculine noun) / it (for a neuter noun)
город
city
в
in / to (direction)
другой
other
переезжать
to move house, to relocate
Questions & Answers about Он переезжает в другой город.
The prefix пере- usually means "across", so why does переезжать mean "to move" here?
While пере- often means crossing a physical space (like a street), when combined with verbs of motion it is also the standard way to talk about moving to a new residence. You can think of it as "crossing over" or transferring from your old home to a new one.
Where does the ending -езжает come from? Isn't the verb for going by vehicle ехать or ездить?
You are right that the basic verbs are ехать and ездить. However, there is a special rule for verbs of motion: when you add a prefix to ездить to create an imperfective (ongoing/habitual) verb, the stem changes to -езжать. So, пере- + -езжать becomes переезжать, and its "he" form is переезжает.
Why is it в другой город (accusative case) and not в другом городе (prepositional case)?
Because this sentence is about motion towards a destination ("moving into"), which requires the accusative case after the preposition в. If you were talking about a static location where he already is, you would use the prepositional case instead: Он живёт в другом городе (He lives in another city).
If другой город is in the accusative case, why didn't its endings change from the dictionary form?
Город is a masculine inanimate noun (a non-living thing). In Russian, the accusative case for masculine inanimate nouns, as well as the adjectives attached to them, looks exactly the same as the nominative (dictionary) form.
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