Breakdown of Читатель доходит до конца главы.
конец
end
доходить
to reach (on foot)
до
as far as, up to
глава
chapter
читатель
reader
Questions & Answers about Читатель доходит до конца главы.
Why is до used both in the verb доходит and right after it as a preposition?
In Russian, it is very common for the prefix on a verb of motion to match the preposition that follows it. The prefix до- means "up to" or "as far as," and it pairs naturally with the preposition до to emphasize reaching a specific destination.
Why are there two Genitive nouns in a row (конца главы)?
Each noun is in the Genitive case for a different reason. Конца is Genitive because it follows the preposition до. Главы is Genitive because it shows possession or relation, translating to "of the chapter." Stringing Genitive nouns together like this is how Russian builds phrases like "X of Y" after a preposition.
What happened to the letter е in the word for end (конец)? Why is it конца rather than конеца?
The word конец has what is called a "fleeting vowel." In many Russian masculine nouns, the last vowel (often е or о) drops out when you add a case ending. When we add the Genitive ending -а, the е disappears, leaving us with конца.
Since we are studying passive sentences, how would the word читатель change if we made this a passive sentence?
In this active sentence, читатель is in the Nominative case because the reader is the subject doing the action. If we rewrote this as a passive sentence where the action is done BY the reader, the agent moves to the Instrumental case, becoming читателем.
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