Breakdown of Мне часто приходится переносить встречи из-за плохой погоды.
я
I
плохой
bad
часто
often
погода
the weather
встреча
meeting
из-за
because of; from behind
приходиться
to have to
переносить
to postpone
Questions & Answers about Мне часто приходится переносить встречи из-за плохой погоды.
Why is "I have to" translated as мне приходится instead of я должен?
приходится expresses circumstantial necessity—you are forced to do something by outside circumstances (in this case, the bad weather) rather than by a personal duty or moral obligation. Because it is an impersonal verb, the person who "has to" act must be in the Dative case, which is why we use мне instead of я.
Why is the imperfective verb переносить used here instead of the perfective перенести?
The word часто (often) tells us this is a repeated, habitual action. We use the imperfective aspect for recurring events. If you were forced by the weather to reschedule just one specific meeting on a single occasion, you would use the perfective перенести.
Why do we use из-за for "because of" instead of потому что?
из-за is a preposition used directly before a noun phrase (here, плохой погоды) to indicate a cause. потому что is a conjunction that must be followed by a full clause with a subject and a verb (e.g., "because the weather is bad"). Furthermore, из-за is specifically used for negative or frustrating causes, which perfectly fits this scenario!
What case is плохой погоды (bad weather) in?
It is in the Genitive case. The preposition из-за always requires the Genitive case, so the nominative плохая погода changes to плохой погоды.
Since this is an impersonal sentence with no real subject, what case is встречи (meetings)?
It is in the Accusative plural, because it acts as the direct object of the verb переносить (reschedule what? meetings). For inanimate nouns, the Accusative plural form is identical to the Nominative plural, which can sometimes make it look like a subject at first glance.
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