во время

preposition

/vo vremya/

1.

during

You are not allowed to use your phone during the lesson.

You are not allowed to talk during the exam.

I drink coffee during work.

It happened during the winter break.

Я всегда выключаю свет во время грозы.

I always turn off the lights during a thunderstorm.

We worked remotely during the pandemic.

During the war, people had nothing to eat.

Real-life examples for во время

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"В ближайшие пять лет запланировано строительство 15 отелей с общим количеством номеров около 3 тысяч", - сообщил мэр Олег Сорокин во время отчета о проделанной работе перед городскими депутатами.

"In the next five years, it is planned to build 15 hotels with a total number of rooms of about 3,000," Mayor Oleg Sorokin said during a progress report to city deputies.

RIA Novosti

- Вы знаете, в какие-то моменты из-за пандемии становится тяжело морально, особенно во время тренировочного процесса, когда больше месяца находимся на одном и том же месте в пузыре.

- You know, at some moments, due to the pandemic, it becomes mentally difficult, especially during the training process, when we have been in the same place in the bubble for more than a month.

- К тому же, во время выступления отключился один из вентиляторов, и я вдруг поняла, что задыхаюсь, а нужно было плясать.

- Besides, one of the fans turned off during the performance, and I suddenly realized that I was suffocating, but I had to dance.

"Поле памяти" - мемориал павшим воинам во время Великой Отечественной Войны.

The Field of Memory is a memorial to fallen soldiers during the Great Patriotic War.

Wikipedia

Summary

  • Во время is a Russian preposition meaning "during".
  • It is followed by a noun denoting an event or activity in the genitive case.
  • It can be used to describe one-time events or habitual/repeated actions that happen during that time.