"Что думает твоя лошадь?"

Translation: What does your horse think?

[duosam1]

my horse is a pessimist, always the neigh-sayer

[Mei_Basir]

Awesome.

[PianoLvr]

All these comments are so much fun! Thanks for all the horse puns and giving me a laugh in my language learning ;)

[Vermontpelierite]

"Some hay would taste good."

[kaashew]

You need to get stable guys

[Alnnfan]

Please don't NEIGHlect the horses, they will starve!

[Superuncia]

How ca-neigh know?

[JerryTravels]

Hoof'ought up of this ridiculous question...

[Superuncia]

That's equestrian without a good answer

[freiling]

And now we're saddled with that problem.

[duosam1]

That's what I wanna neigh too

[bring_joy]

Stop horsing around guys!

[Martin135869]

Сяду я верхом на коня

Ты неси по полю меня

По бескрайнему полю моему

Тра ла ла...

[VernalFreshet]

Lyube's Конь! One of my favorite songs!

[AndrewnotinJapan]

How would you say "What do you think OF your horse?" Is it a different word order or a different verb?

[ptoro]

Thank you for asking. I want to know too as yours is a much more useful phrase for everyone other than horse whisperers.

[absceso]

что *Bы думаете об твоя лошадь or something similar I think

[mrputter]

Close!

• "Что вы думаете о вашей лошади?"

Or:

• "Что ты думаешь о твоей лошади?"

When you use the word "about" (generally: "о" when followed by a consonant, "об" when followed by a vowel or "обо" when followed by the word "мне"), the consequent phrase (the thing that the "about" is about) has to be in the locative/prepositional case -- the same one that you use with "в" to indicate "located at"...

So:

• the locative of the (feminine) noun "лошадь" is "лошади",
• the feminine singular locative of "ваша" is "вашей",
• the feminine singular locative of "твоя" is "твоей".

Hence as above.

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(P.S.: this is an area where I'm shakier, but I think you can also use "свой" in this case, so for example:

• "Что вы думаете о своей лошади?"
• "Что ты думаешь о своей лошади?"

But I'm certainly willing to be corrected on this last.)

[absceso]

Hey that was useful, thanks!

[AmbassadorTigger]

I believe you are correct about your last point; from my understand when the subject is the one who possesses something, you can use (and I think it's actually more idiomatic to use) a form of свой.

[sahmeepee]

You've got the Вы form of the verb there. Not sure about the rest.. bit beyond me

[TSCannington]

I think he's quite nice thank you

[Brunobruniii]

When you are unsure what someone's horse is thinking

[IGa61]

Where was Duolingo when I went to Russia last time and couldn't ask anyone what their horses were thinking??

[DOne803003]

Duolingo wants to make learning free and "fun"...

[Gremmie1]

"No sir, he doesn't like it."

[cascadianski]

я любил рен и стимпи когда я был маленький!

[Lerner470815]

This could have been a legitimate question if Caligula succeeded in making Incitatus a consul.

[CarlAgren]

I thought that he did. Wasn't that the story? He made his horse a consul and then waged war on the sea?

[Kurt225722]

Your horse ponders their own existence and wonders what is the purpose of this short life we all live

[KrisLoquat]

Probably nothing unless of course that horse is Mr. Ed.

[PianoLvr]

Yay!! I thought of Mr. Ed right away and got on here to see if anyone else did :)

[AgostinoGn]

Why now we have the form "что думает" while in a previuos exercise i found "как ты думаешь", better to use как or что?

[jsilverman7]

https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Russian/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA/5e037e29d000f729061e3a84171676ea

"kak" means how or as.
"что" means that, what, which.

[jamiejaaay]

My best understanding is this is the difference between "what is he thinking?" and "what do you think, should we make soup?"

In English, you say "what" in both cases, but in many languages you ask "how do you think" when you're soliciting thoughts or opinions about a specific subject.

But don't take my word as gospel. Im also just learning.

[_Bart_]

What does the fox say?

[KimJongX]

Neigh

[DannySmall3]

"Well let me just ask him"

[NoahHocker]

I must have quadruple checked my translation, like, I'm pretty sure this is right cause I know all these words buuuut wow the cognition of horses... abstraction: great way to learn grammar

[59191]

He thinks it's queer
To stop without a farmhouse near...

[frogman1370]

Horses are not the only 'mane' animals to have thoughts.

[Carlos7]

In mother Russia horses always have something to say.

[jodi734626]

So is this a russian saying or just asklkt question? I never heard anyone say it to me when i was there.

[nonnodacciaio]

The important thing is to learn the structure, then you can replace horse with anything you like

[LaRataStretchy]

I don't know, why don't you ask him?

[soniamoura13]

I love these sentences! They work because we don't forget them and it's so funny some of the comments people make!!

[Sahr751847]

Its neigh a drama

[apolygot]

I neigh not the answer human

[Josh980562]

Who is ever going to say this, really?

[genoskill]

A moderator truly is missing in this comment section.

[Spicy_Cheese]

My horse thinks his name is Mr. Ed.

[LattJ0rr]

Makes a lot of horse sense.. Lol

[Alisa586995]

Ха-ха-ха!!! Что может думать лошадь??

[Donny848941]

He thinks about whether that tree branch is high enough that he can run under it and low enough that he will get a new rider who will feed him better

[Teme440461]

Many times I wonder, are these questions generated by actual people...

[maou01]

First, I don't have a horse. And second, how am I supposed to know what the hell a horse is thinking, it's a horse.

[Hrfg369604]

Russian expression: пусть, лошадь думает, у неё голова большая...

[Icrad1]

Horse do ya think hay or neigh? "NEIGH!!!"

[YungOligarch]

HE'S THINKING MORE CARROTS!

[marcialori]

It is a very strange question

[Smonorkith]

Why is it 'как думаете' in some cases, for example 'как думаете, это мальчик читает' but here it's 'что'? '

[Kundoo]

"Как думаете" - "how do you think", "что думаете" - "what do you think". The usage of both expressions is pretty much the same as in English.

[jamesfrank11]

Thus confuses me. I imagiend it as "what do you think (of) the horse?" rather than "what does your horse think" can someone tell me why it is about what the horse thinks and not What you think of the horse?

[marbleox]

[dumat'] here is in 3rd-person-singular . For "you think" you would use either 2nd-person-singular [dumajesh'] or 2nd-person-plural [dumajetje]. (Sorry about the lack of Cyrillic; I'm on my phone)

[Anthony571299]

Im taking a shot after every section and this thread has me rofl

[SeyedMahmoud]

He is thinking why you are high in my farm?

[DZRyu]

Well, he actually doesn't

[AnatoliyPobelyan]

Что думает моя лошадь? Да кто их, коней, знает что они думают!!!

[AnatoliyPobelyan]

Давно я не видел такой оживленной дискуссии