Breakdown of Хороший учитель всегда будет вдохновлять своих учеников.
учитель
teacher
хороший
good
всегда
always
быть
to be
ученик
pupil
свой
one's own
вдохновлять
to inspire
Questions & Answers about Хороший учитель всегда будет вдохновлять своих учеников.
Why do we use the compound future будет вдохновлять instead of a single-word perfective future verb here?
The word всегда (always) indicates a continuous or repeated action. In Russian, habitual future actions require the imperfective aspect, which is formed by the future of быть (here, будет) plus the imperfective infinitive вдохновлять.
Why does the sentence use своих instead of его for "his"?
свой is a reflexive possessive pronoun that always refers back to the subject of the clause (here, учитель). If you used его учеников, it would imply the teacher is inspiring some other person's students, not their own.
своих учеников looks like the Genitive case. Why is it in this form?
It is actually the Accusative case, acting as the direct object of вдохновлять. Because ученик is an animate noun (a living being), its Accusative plural form is identical to its Genitive plural form.
Could I use the perfective verb вдохновить in this sentence if I removed the word всегда?
Yes. If you were talking about a single, specific instance of inspiring the students with a guaranteed result, rather than a continuous trait, you would drop будет and use the simple future perfective: учитель вдохновит.
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