Word
Этот подход требует нестандартного мышления.
Meaning
This approach requires non-standard thinking.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Этот подход требует нестандартного мышления.
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
требовать
to demand
нестандартный
unconventional, non-standard
подход
approach
Questions & Answers about Этот подход требует нестандартного мышления.
Why is нестандартного мышления in the genitive case instead of the accusative?
The verb требовать (to require / to demand) usually takes the genitive case when its object is an abstract concept, like attention, time, or thinking. While you might use the accusative case when demanding a specific, concrete physical object, an abstract noun like мышление naturally takes the genitive here.
How could we use the lesson's target word иной (other / different) in this sentence?
You could swap out нестандартного for иного to say that this approach requires a different way of thinking. The sentence would become: Этот подход требует иного мышления. Because мышление is a neuter noun in the genitive case, the pronoun иной declines to иного to match it.
Is the noun мышление related to the everyday verb думать (to think)?
They are related in meaning but come from different roots. Мышление refers to thinking as a cognitive process, a mindset, or reasoning. It comes from the formal verb мыслить (to reason). You use мышление for high-level concepts, whereas думать is used for everyday thoughts, like deciding what to have for dinner.
Why is the imperfective verb требует used here rather than a perfective equivalent?