Breakdown of Реализация этой программы займёт полтора года.
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
год
year
программа
program
занять
to take (pfv)
полтора
one and a half [f. полторы, obl. полутора]
реализация
the implementation (carrying out, realization)
Questions & Answers about Реализация этой программы займёт полтора года.
Why do we use займёт here instead of a future form of взять?
When talking about an event or task taking time, Russian uses the verb занимать or занять, not брать or взять. The verb взять is used for physically taking or grabbing an object. Since this is a completed future action, we use the perfective future form займёт.
How does the grammar of полтора года work?
полтора is a special numeral meaning one and a half. Like the numbers 2, 3, and 4, it requires the following noun to be in the Genitive singular, which is why we see года from год. Note that полтора is used for masculine and neuter nouns; if the noun were feminine, you would use полторы.
The current lesson is about the preposition в ходе (in the course of). How could we use it with the vocabulary in this sentence?
You could easily use в ходе to talk about an event happening during this process. Because this compound preposition requires the Genitive case, you would say В ходе реализации этой программы (In the course of the implementation of this program) followed by whatever action takes place.
How could I change the word order to mean it will take about a year and a half?
You can express approximation in Russian simply by swapping the noun and the number. If you change the end of the sentence to займёт года полтора, this inversion automatically means it will take approximately one and a half years.
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