"Мой брат много раз читал эту книгу."
Translation:My brother has read this book many times.
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Why not «прочита́ть»? Merely because he might just haven’t finished reading it time after time?
After много the genitive case must be used, right? If so, isn’t the genitive form of раз раза?
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 :)
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.)
"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"?
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?
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.
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?
Can somebody explain to me why is the phrase in past simple wrong: "my brother read this book many times"??
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.
