"Grandmother is old and her lower back hurts."
Translation:Бабушка старая, и у неё болит низ спины.
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I typed "Бабушка старая и у неё низ спины болит." and was marked wrong. Does "болит" need to come immediately after "у неё" in this type of construction?
353
No, your answer should have been marked as correct: it's perfectly fine to switch object and subject of a sentence, and it sounds just fine to me, a native speaker.
Because there is no contrast here. It is generally considered somewhat normal to have some pains when old. If it was "Grandma is old, and grandpa is not", then you could use а to connect the two clauses.
Бабушка старая, и у неё болит низ спины. ^This is my answer, copied and pasted.
Бабушка старая, и у неё болит низ спины. ^This is the Translation, copied and pasted.
Am I crazy, or is there some kind of glitch? Because I cannot find my error.
- 353
You're not going crazy, it's just a glitch. Quite frankly, I'd vote for removing this sentence from the lesson altogether. I feel that it adds little value and plenty of confusion.
Why can't I use стара here, instead of старая? As far as I remember, we were thought that when there is an expression of the form X is ADJ, we need to use the short form of the adjective. So, why is it not allowed here?
- 353
You most definitely can use the short form of the adjective here, it should be an accepted answer.
- 1708
Дело в том, что "lower back (низ спины)", это не только "шляпа", но и поясница.
Следовало бы добавить поясницу в правильные ответы.
Кроме того, у людей преклонного возраста вследствие распространённого остеохондроза боль в пояснично-крестцовом отделе позвоночника является типичной клинической картиной. С другой стороны, боль в "шляпе" может возникать у людей любых возрастных категорий (не только у пожилых), например, на почве осложнённого течения геморроидального процесса.
жопа что ли?
in russian it's enough to say just back and everyone will understand that it's lower back :)
