Breakdown of Голосование будет продолжаться весь день.
день
day
быть
to be
весь
all, the whole, everything, everyone (весь, вся, всё, все)
продолжаться
to continue, to go on
голосование
the voting
Questions & Answers about Голосование будет продолжаться весь день.
Why do we use the reflexive verb продолжаться here instead of продолжать?
Because голосование (the voting) is the subject and it continues on its own, without a direct object. This is an intransitive action. If we used the non-reflexive продолжать, we would need someone doing the continuing to something else, like 'They will continue the voting' (Они будут продолжать голосование).
Why do we use the compound future будет продолжаться instead of a single perfective future verb?
The phrase весь день (all day) emphasizes that this is an ongoing, continuous process. To express continuous or unfinished actions in the future, we use the imperfective aspect, which is formed with the future tense of 'to be' (будет) plus the imperfective infinitive (продолжаться).
What case is весь день in here?
It is in the Accusative case. In Russian, when you talk about the duration of an action (how long something lasts), the time phrase takes the Accusative case with no preposition. Because день is an inanimate masculine noun, its Accusative form looks exactly the same as the Nominative.
Is the word голосование (voting) related to the word голос (voice)?
Yes! To vote in Russian is голосовать, which literally comes from giving your voice. The suffix -ание is then added to turn the verb into the neuter noun голосование (the act of voting).
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