[identity profile] chouchou61.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] learn_russian

I'm having difficulty understanding which preposition to use in the following examples:

Она задумалась ___ минуту.
Он уехал ____ год, и ____ год мы не получили от него ни одного письма.
 

Мы остановились около рынка ___ полчаса.  ___ полчаса мы купили всё, что нам было нужно.
Сейчас у меня обед, я планирую обсудить этот вопрос ____ час.

More than simply getting the answers to these exercises, I'm hoping that one (or more) of you can come up with a combination of explanations and examples that will sink into my old brain. :)

Date: 2009-01-25 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ovd-off.livejournal.com
"За" is never used with Dat. Here is always Винительный падеж (Accusative).
Actually, "за" + time = during (за минуту, за секунду, за час, за месяц, за год etc. ;
"на" + time = for (на + Асс. на минуту, на секунду, на час);
"через" + time = in (через + Acc.) через минуту, через секунду, через час.

Date: 2009-01-25 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassandraclue.livejournal.com
Thanks! I never really thought about it, so I thought that за секунду and за минуту were секунд and минут in dative, not секунда and минута in accusative, and I don't think anyone's ever corrected me because I generally say the diminuitive forms in conversation anyway.

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