English Translation
Anne got out the door as quickly as she could when she saw him there.
why is door (дверей) plural?
I asked a native Russian speaker. He says that из дверей might be a fixed expression. He goes on to say that in older buildings, there was often a pair of doors/gates, and you had to open both to get in or out. So it would make sense to treat doors as plural.
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English Translation
Anne got out the door as quickly as she could when she saw him there.
Historically and idiomatically, Russian treats a doorway as something two-sided / double-leaf: two door panels, the space + the frame, the entrance as a whole. So двери became the normal word for “door / doorway,” even when it’s just one physical entrance.
That’s why:
у двери = at the door
в дверях = in the doorway
из дверей = out of the doorway
All plural.
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