"This girl is a children's composer."
Translation:Эта девушка — детский композитор.
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The word девочка refers to a young girl, девушка refers to the likes of a 'young woman'; considering the subject in this sentence has a profession, I would not assume девочка. Have you ever met a 8 year old that was a professional composer?
Oh.. I thought children's composer was referring to a child who is a composer. There are many stories of famous composers creating great works as children. Mozart was a child prodigy, apparently composing at 5 and performing in royal courts at 6.
It is rare to find children who are professional composers but even today they exist. There is a lovely British girl, who is today a девушка, probably, but began composing as still a девочка. If memory serves me, her name is Emma.
Since it's referring to a girl, why isn't the feminine композитора accepted?
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This word has no feminine form. Композитора is the accusative and genitive cases of композитор
why is детская композитора not accepted? Since this is a girl, but using the masculine form of the word?
I am not an expert but i asked my wife who is russian and she said the only thing that would make her decide to use девушка would be the fact you that you are talking about a profession that a girl would not have but something that a young woman would. So if you key off that information, Девушка seems more appropriate.
I asked my Russian wife too, she also said something like this. I think the problem is we don't use a distinct word in English that corresponds to девушка. Perhaps the archaic "maiden" would fit.
See Nannerl Mozart, Wolfie's younger sister. She was a fine composer as a little girl.
I type using transliterated English instead of a Russian keyboard, and when I type "Eta devushka - detskii kompozitor", it says I am wrong and the correct answer is "Eta devushka — det-skii kompozitor."
Any idea why детский would be transliterated as det-skii instead of detskii?
Would it be because "t-s" transliterate to "тс" while "ts" transliterates to "ц" ? (I'm guessing here, i don't use transliterated English)
Still not accepting девочка though this was reported 2 years ago. Any replies as to why this is wrong?
Ради прикола решил "поучить" русский язык,а тут girl уже не девочка,а девушка стала.Может уже woman сразу или grandmother.
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I think "девушка" only means girlfriend when it's "possessed" by someone, e.g. "моя/его/ваша девушка"="my/his/your girlfriend". Kind of like in English some people say "my girl" meaning "my girlfriend".
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Duolingo, you really need to add more error categories; for this, I get three possible errors I can report: audio is wrong, dictionary hints are wrong or the english is wrong. However, here, the problem is with the transliteration. det-skii works, detskii doesn't. That's a bizarre error, and you should fix it. These kinds of problems do not inspire an interest in paying for your product, especially as you also seem entirely disinterested in fixing errors and bugs.
I don't understand the sentence in English. Sounds as broken English to me.
Nor did I. So I went on Google translator: Children's writer = writer for children.
As a musician myself, the expression "children's composer" sounds absolutely unnatural and probably unheard in real life. It would make more sense something as "composer of music for children" or for brevity sake, "composer for children".
I guess детский belongs to a special class of Russian adjectives that are understood as genitive, in meaning. But that doesn't transpose well to English.
Would be детский used in the sense of "childish, infantile", in relation with behavior and mindset?
Why is Эта девушка композитор детский wrong? Isnt the emphasized word last? She is a children's composer as opposed to one for adult songs.
