"Мой брат много раз читал эту книгу."

Translation: My brother has read this book many times.

[SpookyHams]

"My brother read this book many times" should be a legit answer

[sara_scout]

"эту книгу"... does it have to be translated as "this book"? Would "that book" be acceptable?

If not, how would "that book" be expressed in Russian (with a demonstrative pronoun in accusative)? "ту книгу"?

[JanisaChatte]

"that book" works too. Added it.

[tonyhall92]

I noticed that Duolingo used present perfect which I don't think is technically correct but works either way. But it makes me wonder, does Russian even have a present perfect tense?

[tenuss]

It doesn't. It makes translating a real pain and you really need more context.

[LaserDuck]

After много the genitive case must be used, right? If so, isn’t the genitive form of раз раза?

[WujekAtom]

I think this is because "много раз" together means "many times" and it does not change the ending of "раз", but this is just mu guessing. Native speaker needed here :)

[Fnirk1]

I am not a native speaker, but as far as I know раз is genitiv plural.

Раз (nom.) - раза (or разу) (gen. sing.) - раз (gen. pl.)

[DanDuoru]

Why not «прочита́ть»? Merely because he might just haven’t finished reading it time after time?

[aatay626142]

Maybe he will read again

[AntiSpiral99]

Not sure why even though the sentence is position this way, the answer "my brother many times has read this book" isnt acceptable. It still makes sense.

[PedroArman5]

Can somebody explain to me why is the phrase in past simple wrong: "my brother read this book many times"??

[tenuss]

It's not wrong, it just sounds like your brother is dead.

[dirckk]

Imagine it's a children's book and he's now grown. Or his tastes changed. Or countless other situations where this would be perfectly valid. Thankfully it's now accepted.

[Nonehaveenought]

can we translate "много раз" by "more than once"?

[BenYoung84]

Nope.

[websmasha]

Why not 'My brother was reading this book may times?'

[75savard]

not even a proper english sentence

[Andreas655519]

Shouldn't раз be in the genitive because if follows много? If it should be gebitive plural shouldn't it be много разов? Is this an exception or something?

[BenYoung84]

Yes, раз has an irregular genitive plural that is just раз.

[Andreas655519]

Thank you so much! Now it makes sense!

[BenYoung84]

Happy to help.