Breakdown of После работы люди расходятся по домам.
дом
house
работа
work, job
люди
people
после
after
по
along, around
расходиться
to disperse
Questions & Answers about После работы люди расходятся по домам.
Why do we use по домам instead of just saying домой?
The preposition по followed by the Dative plural is used here to show a distributive meaning. While домой simply means home or homewards, по домам specifically emphasizes that a group of people is dispersing, with each person going to their own separate home.
How does the prefix рас- affect the verb расходятся?
The verb расходятся is built from the core motion verb ходить. Adding the prefix рас- to a verb of motion creates the meaning of moving apart in different directions. The reflexive -ся ending shows that the people are doing this to themselves (dispersing), rather than separating something else.
What case is домам and how is it formed?
Домам is the Dative plural form of дом. The preposition по requires the Dative case when expressing this each to their own distributive concept. For masculine nouns ending in a consonant like дом, the Dative plural ending is -ам.
As a quick refresher, why is it после работы instead of после работа?
The preposition после (after) always takes the Genitive case. Because работа is a feminine noun ending in -а, it changes to -ы in the Genitive singular, giving us после работы.
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