No. 18,396 in Russian
электричку
Suburban commuter train.
In a sentence
Мы сегодня решили поехать на электричке на дачу.
Today, we decided to take the suburban train to our summer house.
In this sentence, 'электричке' is used in the prepositional case to indicate the mode of transportation, a suburban train.
Вчера я проспал и опоздал на электричку.
Yesterday, I overslept and missed the suburban train.
Here, 'электричку' is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb 'опоздал' (missed), referring to the suburban train.
На этой остановке электричка будет через пять минут.
At this stop, the suburban train will arrive in five minutes.
In this case, 'электричка' is in the nominative case as the subject of the sentence, referring to the suburban train that is scheduled to arrive.
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