Breakdown of Директор сказал, что они хотят расширить стартап с целью выйти на новый рынок.
они
they
новый
new
хотеть
to want
на
on, at / by (transport) / to (a place) / to (in answer to)
рынок
market
директор
director
сказать
to tell, to say
что
that (conjunction)
с
with (also со)
выйти
to exit, go out (pf) / to go beyond
цель
goal
стартап
the startup
расширить
to expand
Questions & Answers about Директор сказал, что они хотят расширить стартап с целью выйти на новый рынок.
How does с целью work in this sentence, and could we just use чтобы?
с целью translates to "with the aim of" or "for the purpose of." It serves the same function as чтобы (in order to) but sounds much more formal and professional, which fits this business context perfectly. Because the people expanding the startup are the exact same people entering the market, you just follow с целью directly with the infinitive выйти.
Why is хотят in the present tense if the director said it in the past?
In Russian, reported speech preserves the exact tense the speaker originally used. The director originally thought or said, "We want to expand" (мы хотим). Therefore, you keep the present tense (они хотят) in the subordinate clause, unlike English which usually shifts the tense back to the past ("said that they wanted").
Why do we use на in выйти на новый рынок instead of в?
The word рынок (market) historically refers to an open-air square or gathering place, so it traditionally pairs with the preposition на rather than в. Because the startup is entering (moving toward) the market, the phrase takes the accusative case of direction (на новый рынок).
Why are расширить and выйти in the perfective aspect here?
The speaker is focusing on the completion and the concrete result of these actions: successfully scaling the business once and successfully landing in a new market. If the focus were instead on the ongoing process or continuous strategy of expanding, the imperfective forms (расширять and выходить) would have been used.
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