Breakdown of Несомненно, в две тысячи тридцатом году роботы будут помогать нам.
мы
we
год
year
две
two (f)
быть
to be
помогать
to help
в
on / during (a time period)
тысяча
thousand
тридцатый
thirtieth
робот
robot
несомненно
undoubtedly
Questions & Answers about Несомненно, в две тысячи тридцатом году роботы будут помогать нам.
How does несомненно fit into this sentence, and does it always need a comma?
Несомненно (undoubtedly) is a parenthetical word expressing a high degree of certainty. Like most parentheticals in Russian, it is grammatically independent from the rest of the sentence and must be set off by commas. If it appeared in the middle of the sentence, it would have commas on both sides (for example, Роботы, несомненно, будут...).
Why is it две тысячи instead of declining the whole number for the year?
When expressing years using compound ordinal numbers, only the very last word takes the ordinal form and changes case. The preceding words remain as cardinal numbers (regular counting numbers) in the nominative case. Therefore, две тысячи stays unchanged, while тридцатый changes to the prepositional case тридцатом to match году.
Why use the imperfective future будут помогать instead of the perfective помогут?
The imperfective future emphasizes the ongoing, continuous nature of the action ('will be helping us' as a general state of life in 2030). If we used the perfective помогут, it would imply a single, completed action, such as stepping in to help us solve one specific problem.
Just a quick refresher: why is the pronoun at the end нам?
The verb помогать (to help) and its perfective counterpart always require their object to be in the Dative case. Нам is the Dative form of мы (we).
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