Breakdown of Мы пригласили того известного социолога, с которым вы анализировали данные.
мы
we
вы
you (plural)
известный
famous
с
with (also со)
тот
that
который
which / who / that (relative pronoun)
пригласить
to invite (perfective)
социолог
sociologist
данные
data
анализировать
to analyze
Questions & Answers about Мы пригласили того известного социолога, с которым вы анализировали данные.
Why do того известного социолога look like they are in the genitive case?
They are actually in the accusative case because they are the direct object of the verb пригласили (invited). Remember that for animate masculine nouns (like a person), the accusative case endings are identical to the genitive case endings.
How does the relative pronoun которым work here?
The word который (which/who) matches the gender and number of the noun it refers to (the masculine singular социолог). However, its case is determined by its role in the second half of the sentence: "with whom". The preposition с (with) requires the instrumental case, making it с которым.
The word данные looks like an adjective. Is it acting as a noun?
Yes! Данные (data) is originally an adjective but functions as a noun in Russian, and it is almost exclusively used in the plural. Here it is the direct object of анализировали (analyzed). Because "data" is inanimate, its accusative plural form is identical to the nominative plural.
If I wanted to say "analyzed some data" using the quantifier несколько, how would that change the sentence?
You would say анализировали несколько данных. Because the direct object is inanimate, the accusative form of the quantifier is just несколько. However, несколько forces the noun that follows it into the genitive plural, which is why данные becomes данных.
Why use the imperfective verb анализировали rather than the perfective?
The imperfective анализировали emphasizes the process or the shared activity of analyzing the data together in the past. If the speaker wanted to stress that the analysis was completely finished and yielded a final result, they would use the perfective form, проанализировали.
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