Word
Подозреваемый не раскаивается в краже.
Meaning
The suspect does not repent of the theft.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Подозреваемый не раскаивается в краже.
не
not
подозреваемый
suspect
в
of (in accusations, confessions, oaths)
кража
theft
Questions & Answers about Подозреваемый не раскаивается в краже.
Why does the Russian sentence use в + Prepositional case (в краже) for 'of the theft'?
This is the core of this lesson! Verbs of confessing, repenting, and accusing in Russian (like раскаиваться 'to repent', признаваться 'to confess', or обвинять 'to accuse') require the preposition в followed by the Prepositional case. You can think of it as feeling remorse 'in the matter of' the theft.
Is подозреваемый grammatically a noun or an adjective?
Functionally it acts as a noun here meaning 'the suspect.' However, grammatically it is a present passive participle (meaning 'the one being suspected') formed from the verb подозревать (to suspect). Because of this, it changes its endings exactly like a standard adjective.
Раскаивается has the reflexive -ся ending. Can it be used without it?
No, раскаиваться (imperfective) and its perfective pair раскаяться are strictly reflexive verbs. The emotion of remorse is internalized, so you cannot use this verb without the reflexive ending.
How would I phrase this if I wanted to say 'repents of stealing' instead of using the noun 'theft'?
Since раскаиваться demands the preposition в, you would use the construction в том, что (in the fact that) to connect it to a verb clause. You would say: Подозреваемый не раскаивается в том, что он украл... (The suspect does not repent of the fact that he stole...).