Breakdown of Этот хирург работает в нашей больнице.
наш
our
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
работать
to work
больница
hospital
Questions & Answers about Этот хирург работает в нашей больнице.
Why is it в нашей больнице instead of в нашу больницу?
We use the preposition в with the Prepositional case here because it describes a static location (where the surgeon works). Наша больница is feminine, so it changes to нашей больнице. If the sentence were about going to the hospital, we would use the Accusative case (в нашу больницу).
If the surgeon is a woman, does Этот хирург change to Эта хирург?
Why does the г at the end of хирург sound like a к when spoken?
In Russian, voiced consonants like г become devoiced (sound like their unvoiced counterparts, in this case, к) when they appear at the very end of a word. If you add an ending, like the Genitive case ending for 'The surgeon has...' (У хирурга...), the г regains its hard 'g' sound because it is no longer at the end of the word.