"Что думает твоя лошадь?"
Translation:What does your horse think?
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All these comments are so much fun! Thanks for all the horse puns and giving me a laugh in my language learning ;)
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How would you say "What do you think OF your horse?" Is it a different word order or a different verb?
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- "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.
(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.)
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Your horse ponders their own existence and wonders what is the purpose of this short life we all live
https://www.duolingo.com/dictionary/Russian/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA/5e037e29d000f729061e3a84171676ea
"kak" means how or as. "что" means that, what, which.
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.
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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.
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[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)