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- "Где мои дети?"
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On the contrary—good parents would actually ask this question instead of not caring.
Not necessarily true. The parents could trust the children enough to know that they aren't going anywhere dangerous, but still be curious as to where they are right now. I hate the modern view that parents have to always be two steps from their children. Unless a child is in a dangerous city, or is clearly incapable of making wise choices, I see no reason that the parents have to be breathing on their neck.
Not to mention that sometimes good parents just have bad children.
Children in general, even if they aren't necessarily misbehaving, can and will, at some point, run away somewhere just because they're kids and they have to explore the world.
That doesn't mean they're bad children. They're just children. That's pretty normal behaviour for a child. ;) They even need to explore the world (in combination with having parents they can trust) to become independent adults later. The responsibility to take care is on adults.
I think it's a matter of balance between protection and giving your child freedom. Either extreme can be signs of bad parenting / neglection of a child's needs. And sometimes you just know afterwards what would have been the right choice.
Hahaha, me too. Of course, it's inevitable whenever the subject of parenting is raised. Also: indoor/outdoor cats.
Even Mary and Joseph lost their kid. Happens to literally everyone no matter how good you are.
So ребёнок is child and дети is children. Is there any explanation for this pluralization or is it just an exception to memorize?
Дети is plural form of дитя - very old and rarely used word, which also means child.
Wonder why reebyonok won out over deetya in the linguistic evolution, seems deetya is easier
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In English "went" - the past tense of "wend" - won our over the original past tense of "go".
This is why I like to see the comment section of Duolingo even if I'm not confused - you learn something new every day!
Fun fact: This process of using different forms for what to modern speakers is perceived as one word is called suppletion. There are examples in English. J.C.Fink pointed out "go" & "went" but there's also "good" & "better."
Ребёнки is the plural of ребёнок. The difference has to do with age and relation.
I believe there is also a plural form ребята, but I have no idea what is the difference between that and дети.
Привет. For "Where are our children?" , will it be correct to ask "Где наш дети?"
I came to ask this same question! I am a bit confused about if a vowel sound is supposed to be changed, or if the TTS is weird.
The pronunciation of vowels in Russian change depending on whether they are stressed or not.
See the "a note about stress" section:
Russian "llorona". Creepy if you hear that on the street past midnight.
Why Duolingo marks as a mistake Where're my children? If it is just a contraction of Where are my children.
Don't report it. Sorry, but in the English language, there is no such contraction. You have to write out "where are" every time.
Where're is simply incorrect. You need to spell it out. There is no need to report this.
Do you realy need to say that i am wrong when i write is insted of are, english is my second language.
Where are my kids? I think they used мои instead of мой cause of the plural. Not sure though.
