Breakdown of Текст плохой, я хочу переписать этот заголовок.
я
I
текст
text
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
плохой
bad
хотеть
to want
переписать
to rewrite
заголовок
title
Questions & Answers about Текст плохой, я хочу переписать этот заголовок.
How does the prefix пере- work in the word переписать?
The prefix пере- added to a verb often means to do an action over again, usually to fix or improve it. It works very much like the English prefix "re-". Here, писать (to write) becomes переписать (to rewrite).
Why use the perfective verb переписать after хочу instead of an imperfective verb?
When using хотеть (to want) followed by another verb, you choose the perfective aspect if you want a complete, one-time result. The speaker wants to successfully finish rewriting this specific title, not just spend time in the continuous process of doing it.
Заголовок (title) is the direct object being rewritten. Why doesn't it look like it is in the accusative case?
It actually is in the accusative case! Заголовок is a masculine noun. For inanimate (non-living) masculine nouns, the accusative case looks exactly the same as the nominative (dictionary) case. That is why both the modifier этот and the noun заголовок don't change their endings here.
Could I say текст плохо instead of текст плохой?
No, because текст is a noun, so it must be described by an adjective like плохой (bad) to mean "the text is bad". Плохо is an adverb (badly/poorly), which describes actions or general states. You would only use the adverb if you changed the sentence to focus on the action, such as Текст написан плохо (The text is written poorly).
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