Breakdown of Самая большая доля бюджета принадлежит этой компании.
большой
big
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
компания
company
самый
most
Questions & Answers about Самая большая доля бюджета принадлежит этой компании.
The current lesson is about fractions like половина and треть. How does доля fit into this?
Доля translates to 'share', 'portion', or 'fraction'. Just like the specific fraction words you are learning, it acts as a noun and is followed by the Genitive case to show what the share is a part of. Here, we use the Genitive бюджета to mean 'of the budget'.
Why is the phrase 'this company' written as этой компании?
The verb принадлежать (to belong to) always requires the Dative case for the person or thing that owns the object. Therefore, the feminine phrase эта компания changes to its Dative form, этой компании.
Why do we use самая большая here instead of самый большой?
The superlative phrase meaning 'the biggest' must match the gender, number, and case of the noun it describes. The core noun being described is доля, which is feminine and in the Nominative case, so we must use the feminine Nominative form самая большая.
What is the infinitive of принадлежит, and why does it end in -ит instead of -ет?
The infinitive is принадлежать. Even though it ends in -ать, it belongs to the second conjugation group (similar to verbs like слышать or держать). Because of this, it takes the ending -ит for the 3rd-person singular form.