Word
Когда звонит будильник, я встаю и забываю свой кошмар.
Meaning
When the alarm clock rings, I get up and forget my nightmare.
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Breakdown of Когда звонит будильник, я встаю и забываю свой кошмар.
и
and
я
I
звонить
to call
забывать
to forget
Questions & Answers about Когда звонит будильник, я встаю и забываю свой кошмар.
Why is the verb "to get up" conjugated as встаю instead of "вставаю"?
The infinitive is вставать, but it belongs to a special group of verbs ending in -ставать (along with -давать and -знавать). When these verbs are conjugated in the present tense, they completely drop the -ва- suffix. So, it becomes я встаю, ты встаёшь, and so on.
If вставать drops the -ва-, why does забывать keep it to become забываю?
The drop rule is very specific! It only applies to verbs with the exact endings -давать, -знавать, and -ставать. The verb забывать (to forget) ends in -бывать. Since it doesn't fit into those three specific groups, it conjugates like a completely regular verb ending in -ать: я забываю, ты забываешь.
Could I say мой кошмар instead of свой кошмар?
Yes, but свой is much more natural here. Свой is a reflexive possessive pronoun that refers back to the subject of the clause. Since the subject is я (I) and the nightmare belongs to that same "I", Russian strongly prefers свой over мой.
Why doesn't the word кошмар change its ending, since it is the direct object?