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Это очень ранний поезд.

Это очень ранний поезд.
This is a very early train.
From Lesson 279:Telling time: first half of the hour (минут первого)·Russian

Breakdown of Это очень ранний поезд.

это
this / it is
очень
very
поезд
train
ранний
early

Questions & Answers about Это очень ранний поезд.

Why do we use это here instead of этот, since поезд is masculine?
In this sentence, это acts as a pronoun meaning "this is". It stays in the default neuter form when introducing what something is, regardless of the noun's gender. You would only use этот if it were an adjective modifying the noun directly, as in этот очень ранний поезд (this very early train).
Why does ранний end in -ий instead of the usual masculine adjective ending -ый?
Ранний is a "soft" adjective. Because its stem ends in a soft н, its endings use soft vowels (like -ий, -ее, -яя) instead of hard ones. This is a common pattern for adjectives related to time, such as вечерний (evening) or поздний (late).
Is the word поезд related to Russian verbs of motion?
Yes! The root of поезд (train) is directly related to ездить (to go by vehicle). With the prefix по-, it historically referred to a journey or a procession of carriages traveling together, which eventually evolved into the modern word for a train.

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