"Почему вы завтракаете после двенадцати?"
Translation:Why do you have breakfast after twelve?
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Dear Russian team breakfast can be a verb on its own!
Does reporting work in Russian? I've reported a fair amount but I've never gotten any news of something being approved. When reporting in other languages there's usually an update quite soon.
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In English? I am from London and I have never heard a native speaker use breakfast as a verb
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@benograph Hi there. I myself am in the states and have never heard it used either. But it does appear to be used verbally as well:
" eat breakfast. "she breakfasted on French toast and bacon" "
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Breakfast for lunch is the best kind of lunch? So stop telling me how to live my life.
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Can I use зачем to ask this same question instead of почему? I never understood the difference, there is also А что question type
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Зачем asks about purpose, while почему asks about cause. So instead of asking "what is it that causes you to breakfast after twelve", you're asking "what are you hoping to achieve by breakfasting after twelve".
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"А что" не подойдёт для этого предложения
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The sentence "Но что вы завтракаете после двенадцати?" is translated as "But what do you (exactly) have for breakfast after twelve?"
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Что means "what". I don't believe "а что" would work here, though I could be wrong on that.
It is the Genitive, because of после.
Numbers пять, шесть...девятнадцать, двадцать, тридцать all use the same endings ь-ending feminine nouns do (e.g. мышь, мать, кровать, ночь). Their Genitive thus ends in -и.
I understand the letters now, but why is it genitive anyway? I really want to understand it rather than memorize. I always have no idea what case comes after words like после, до...
Each preposition has its own case requirements. Some prepositions combine with a number of cases depending on the meaning.
While there might have been some deeper meaning behind the case assignment in the past, nowadays there does not seem to be any solid explanation why перед ("before, in front") is used with the Instrumental, whereas "до" ("before, until") and "после" (after) are used with the Genitive.
- apart from the fact that a lot of prepositions require the Genitive.
The exact list should be memorized eventually.
