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- "This is your child."
"This is your child."
Translation:Это твой ребёнок.
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Твоя is for female like моя мама everything ending with я. Твой is for Male 0
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Maybe with the word "child", the automatic classification is male if the gender is not known. It would be stange with the fact that all unknown-gendered cats are female until proven otherwise.
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Biological gender doesn't indicate grammatical gender.
Consider these examples:
In French, both "child" (enfant) and "baby" (bébé) are masculine nouns, regardless of the biological gender of the child/baby.
In German, the grammatical gender of "cat" (Katze) is feminine regardless of any particular cat's biological gender, whereas the noun, "girl," (Mädchen) is a neuter noun.
And, in Norwegian, any feminine noun can be declined in both feminine and masculine forms, including nouns such as "woman" (kvinne) and "girl" (jente).
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твой / твоя are informal "your" and ваш / ваша are formal "your" (similar concepts in French and German)
Ваш is also the informal plural you -- also like French, German, Spanish.
How am I supposed to know when is "you" plural or singular?? Getting exercises wrong because of this, both should be accepted
You look at the noun. For example "Your book" becomes "Твоя книга". While "Your books" becomes "Твои книги". If the noun (in this case book - книга) is in singular you use either твой, твоя, твоё to say your depending on what gender the noun is. If the noun is in plural you use твои to say your and also does not depend on the gender of the noun.
Why is it это in this sentence? Should it not be этот if ребёнок is masculine?
why is это ребёнок твой wrong? is always thought that the ordering does not really matter.
Though the ordering doesn't effect the sentence grammatically, in this case, the ordering you're suggesting sounds a bit... too "poetical". Usually, the noun should follow the related pronoun.
Yes, but then that which is yours, should be plural. Your child: твой ребёнок Your children: твои дети
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Actually, it is a demonstrative pronoun in this sentence which is why it doesn't change form.
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I did ваш and it said I was wrong. How am I supposed to know if "your child" requires твой instead of ваш? The example should provide a little more context.
