Breakdown of Оптовая закупка товаров начнётся завтра.
завтра
tomorrow
начинаться
to begin (of an event)
товар
goods, stock
оптовый
wholesale
закупка
purchase / procurement
Questions & Answers about Оптовая закупка товаров начнётся завтра.
Why use закупка instead of the more common покупка?
While покупка is an everyday purchase or buy, закупка implies procurement or purchasing on a larger commercial or institutional scale. This pairs naturally with оптовая (wholesale).
Why does the verb начнётся have a reflexive -ся ending?
Because the action is intransitive here. If a company or person were starting the purchase, you would use the standard transitive verb начать. But since the event (the purchase) is "starting" on its own as a scheduled event, Russian requires the reflexive form начаться.
Товаров is in the Genitive plural here. How would we use it with the numerical nouns from this lesson, like дюжина or сотня?
Just as закупка (purchase) triggers the Genitive plural to mean "of goods," the numerical nouns also take the Genitive plural. "A dozen goods" would be дюжина товаров, and "a hundred goods" is сотня товаров.
What is the root noun for the adjective оптовая?
It comes from the noun опт (wholesale). A very common related word is оптом, which is the instrumental case used as an adverb to mean "in bulk" or "wholesale" (for example, buying things оптом).
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