Breakdown of Президент и руководство компании работали вместе с 2005 до 2010 года.
и
and
работать
to work
вместе
together
год
year
компания
company
до
before, until
с
from (a starting point in time)
президент
president
руководство
leadership
Questions & Answers about Президент и руководство компании работали вместе с 2005 до 2010 года.
How exactly do I say "from 2005 to 2010" in Russian here?
You say с две тысячи пятого до две тысячи десятого. When declining years in Russian, they act like ordinal numbers (meaning they behave like "the 2005th year"). Only the very last word of the number changes its ending. Here, both пятый (fifth) and десятый (tenth) take the Genitive case endings (-ого) because they follow the prepositions с (from) and до (to/until). The две тысячи part doesn't change.
Since we are talking about a span of multiple years (2005 to 2010), why is года in the singular?
In Russian, the word год (year) directly attaches to the last number. You are literally saying "from 2005 up to the 2010th year." Because the number ends in десятого, it requires the Genitive singular года. We drop the first "year" and don't pluralize the second one to "years" like we do in English.
Why is it компании instead of компания?
Компании is in the Genitive case, which is used here to show possession. Combined with руководство, it translates to "the leadership of the company" or "the company's leadership".
Президент is masculine and руководство is neuter. Why does the verb работали take the plural form?
Whenever you have a compound subject joined by и (and) — in this case, "The president and the leadership" — the past tense verb must take the plural form (работали), regardless of the grammatical gender of the individual nouns.
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