obligation and necessity: past

💡 Grammar Rule

Expressing Obligation and Necessity in the Past in Russian When talking about the past, Russian expresses that something had to be done, needed to...

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Why didn't Ivan come to the meeting?

Почему Иван не пришёл на собрание?

Pochemu Ivan ne prishyol na sobraniye?

He was supposed to have been here at five.

Он должен был быть здесь в пять.

On dolzhen byl byt' v pyat'.

You arrived very late last night.

Ты пришёл очень поздно вчера вечером.

Ty prishyol ochen' pozdo vchera vecherom.

I had to walk from the station because there were no taxis.

Мне пришлось идти пешком от вокзала, так как такси не было.

Mne prishlos' idti peshkom ot vokzala, tak kak taksi ne bylo.

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