Breakdown of Вероятно, учёным будет некогда отдыхать.
отдыхать
to rest
быть
to be
учёный
scientist, scholar
некогда
no time
вероятно
probably
Questions & Answers about Вероятно, учёным будет некогда отдыхать.
Why is there a comma immediately after Вероятно?
Because Вероятно (probably) is acting as a parenthetical word here. In Russian grammar, parenthetical words that express the speaker's attitude or degree of certainty must be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas.
Why is the word for scientists (учёным) in the dative case here?
It is the logical subject of the impersonal word некогда (there is no time). In Russian, when expressing that someone lacks the time to do something, the person experiencing this goes in the dative case.
The ending on учёным looks like instrumental singular. How is it dative plural?
The noun учёный (scientist) originally comes from an adjective, so it still declines exactly like one. For adjectives, the dative plural ending is -ым or -им, which happens to look just like the instrumental singular form.
How does the construction будет некогда work?
Некогда is an impersonal predicate meaning "there is no time." To put it into the future tense, you add the third-person singular future form of the verb "to be," which is будет. For the past tense, you would use было некогда.
Are некогда and никогда interchangeable?
Not at all, though they look similar! Некогда is stressed on the first syllable and means "no time." Никогда is stressed on the last syllable, requires a negative verb in the sentence, and means "never.".
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