Breakdown of Вследствие урагана местное лесничество потеряло всё оборудование.
потерять
to lose (perfective)
местный
local
весь
all, the whole, everything, everyone (весь, вся, всё, все)
оборудование
equipment
ураган
the hurricane
вследствие
as a consequence of, as a result of
лесничество
forestry district, forestry enterprise
Questions & Answers about Вследствие урагана местное лесничество потеряло всё оборудование.
How does вследствие differ from из-за, and what case does it trigger here?
Both mean "because of" or "due to" and both require the genitive case, which is why we see урагана. However, вследствие is a highly formal compound preposition. You will see it in news reports, official documents, and formal writing like this sentence, whereas из-за is the standard choice for everyday conversation.
Why does the preposition вследствие end in -е? Is it related to the prepositional case?
No, it is a frozen form. When written as a single continuous word, the preposition вследствие always ends in -е. It is a common mistake even for native speakers to confuse it with the noun phrase в следствии (which means "in the criminal investigation" and consists of two words ending in -и). For the preposition meaning "as a result of", always write it as one word ending in -е.
I recognize the root лес (forest) in лесничество. What does the -ство suffix do here?
The suffix -ство is used to create neuter nouns that represent organizations, domains, or abstract concepts, similar to "-ry" or "-hood" in English. From лес (forest) we get лесник (forester), and adding -ство creates лесничество, which refers to a "forestry district" or "forestry management board".
If the equipment is the direct object being lost, why isn't the form of всё оборудование changed?
It actually is in the accusative case here because it is the direct object of the verb потеряло. However, оборудование is an inanimate neuter noun, and for all neuter nouns, the accusative form looks exactly the same as the nominative form. The pronoun всё is also in its neuter accusative form, which is identical to its nominative form.
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