Breakdown of Смерть — это неизбежный исход для каждого человека.
это
this / it is
человек
person
каждый
every
для
for
смерть
death
неизбежный
inevitable
исход
outcome
Questions & Answers about Смерть — это неизбежный исход для каждого человека.
This lesson focuses on таков, but this sentence uses это. How could we rewrite this to use таков?
You could say Таков неизбежный исход для каждого человека (Such is the inevitable outcome for every person). Here, таков acts as the predicate and takes the masculine form to agree with исход. Alternatively, you could say Смерть такова (Death is such), using the feminine form to agree with смерть.
Why are a dash and the word это used before неизбежный исход?
When both the subject (смерть) and the predicate (исход) are nouns in the nominative case, a dash replaces the present-tense verb "to be". Adding это is optional but very common; it acts as a pointer that makes the definition sound more natural and emphatic.
Could I use результат instead of исход for "outcome"?
Результат means "result" in a general, often analytical sense. Исход, however, carries a stronger sense of finality, conclusion, or an ending (it shares a root with "exit"). For talking about the end of life, diseases, or battles, исход is the idiomatic choice.
Why is the genitive для каждого человека used instead of the dative каждому человеку?
The preposition для (for) strictly requires the genitive case. While you could technically use the dative without a preposition (каждому человеку), для + genitive is the standard way to express an objective fact or condition that applies "for" or "to" a group of people.
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