Question 1

The verb раскупили comes from купить (to buy). What does the prefix рас- add to the meaning here?

Accepted Answer

The prefix рас- (or раз-) often implies distribution or an action carried out to its fullest extent across multiple objects. Here, раскупить means to buy up completely or to sell out, emphasizing that the spectators systematically bought the tickets until the supply was gone.

Question 2

Why does the sentence use в партер (Accusative case) instead of в партере (Prepositional case) since the stalls are a location?

Accepted Answer

When talking about tickets for a specific section or event, Russian treats it like a direction or destination, using в or на + Accusative case. Think of it as a ticket granting entry into the stalls. This is exactly the same logic used in phrases like билет в кино (a ticket to the cinema).

Question 3

This lesson focuses on the emphatic negative ни один. How would we say 'The spectators did not buy a single ticket'?

Accepted Answer

You would say: Зрители не купили ни одного билета. Remember that Russian requires a double negative, so you must add не before the verb. Also, because this is a strong emphatic negation of a direct object, both the pronoun and the noun usually take the Genitive case (ни одного билета).

Question 4

Is there anything tricky about the pronunciation of the word партер?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Because партер is a loanword from French, the letter е does not soften the preceding т. It is pronounced hard, sounding like пар-ТЭР rather than with a soft 'tye' sound. This is a common exception you will see in many foreign words adapted into Russian.

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