Breakdown of В 2000 году этот композитор написал новую симфонию.
новый
new
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
год
year
написать
to write (perfective)
в
on / during (a time period)
двухтысячный
two thousandth
симфония
symphony
композитор
composer
Questions & Answers about В 2000 году этот композитор написал новую симфонию.
How do you read the year 2000 in this sentence?
It is read as двухтысячном. For the exact year 2000, Russian uses the ordinal word двухтысячный (two-thousandth) merged into a single word. Because it follows the preposition в to indicate time, it takes the Prepositional case.
Why is the ending for "year" году instead of the regular Prepositional ending годе?
The noun год belongs to a small group of short masculine words that use a special Locative ending in -у (which is always stressed) when combined with the prepositions в or на to indicate location or time.
Since our current lesson is about подобно (like/similar to), how would I add that he wrote it "like Mozart"?
You would add подобно followed by the Dative case. For example: подобно Моцарту (like Mozart). The full sentence would be: В 2000 году этот композитор написал новую симфонию, подобно Моцарту.
Does the word order matter here, or could I put В 2000 году at the end of the sentence?
You can put it at the end, but starting with the time phrase sets the scene first, which is the standard Russian phrasing for recounting facts. Moving it to the end shifts the conversational emphasis heavily onto the date itself, as if answering the specific question "When did he write it?".
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