Breakdown of Редактор приезжает в издательство.
в
in / to (direction)
приезжать
to arrive (by vehicle)
редактор
editor
издательство
publishing house
Questions & Answers about Редактор приезжает в издательство.
Why use приезжает instead of приходит for "arrives"?
Приезжает specifically means arriving by a vehicle (like a car or taxi). If the editor were arriving on foot, you would use приходит. Russian requires you to specify the mode of transport with verbs of motion.
Why is в издательство in the accusative case rather than the prepositional case?
Because it indicates the direction of motion (answering "where to?"), which requires в plus the accusative case. If you wanted to say the editor is already located inside the publishing house (answering "where at?"), you would use the prepositional case: в издательстве.
Since we are learning about passive sentences and the instrumental case, can we rewrite this sentence in the passive voice?
No, because приезжать (to arrive) is an intransitive verb, meaning it does not take a direct object. Passive constructions with an agent in the instrumental case (like "The article was written редактором") are only formed from transitive verbs.
How can we tell this means "arrives" (present) rather than "will arrive" (future)?
The verb приезжает is imperfective, so its conjugated form expresses the present tense. If you used the perfective form приедет, the sentence would shift to the future tense ("will arrive"), because perfective verbs do not have a present tense.
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