Breakdown of Наша компания не допускает даже наименьших ошибок.
не
not
наш
our (наш, наша, наше)
ошибка
mistake
даже
even
компания
company
допускать
to admit / to allow (entry or possibility)
наименьший
absolute smallest / least
Questions & Answers about Наша компания не допускает даже наименьших ошибок.
How exactly is the word наименьших formed here?
It uses the prefix наи-, which creates an absolute superlative meaning "the absolute most" or "the very". Here, it is added to меньших, the genitive plural of меньший (smaller/smallest). Together, наименьший means "the very smallest".
Can I attach the prefix наи- to any adjective to mean "the absolute most"?
No, you cannot add it to standard adjectives like красивый. The prefix наи- is almost exclusively added to special comparative or superlative forms, most commonly irregular ones like лучший (наилучший), худший (наихудший), больший (наибольший), and меньший (наименьший).
Why is наименьших ошибок in the genitive case rather than the accusative?
This is due to the genitive of negation. When a transitive verb is negated with не, its direct object often takes the genitive case instead of the accusative. This is strongly preferred for abstract concepts like ошибка and verbs of allowance or possession like допускать.
Why use допускает here instead of разрешает for "allow"?
While разрешать means giving direct permission to a person, допускать means to allow something to happen or to tolerate it. Furthermore, допускать ошибку is a standard Russian collocation meaning "to make a mistake", so this sentence conveys that the company does not make or tolerate them.
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