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- "Our cats eat eggs."
"Our cats eat eggs."
Translation:Наши кошки едят яйца.
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Yes. Plural: These eggs -эти яйца, but many eggs - много яиц. If from ten to five it will be яиц but at the same time from 4 to 2 яйца. A dozen - яиц. It's just crazy ))
"кошки" is the plural of the feminine word for cat "кошкa", correct? So if it were male cats we were talking about we would the plural of the masculine for Cat, right? If that is the case we would use коты when talking about male cats?
When would you use едят as opposed to ест? I thought едят was 'are eating,' but this case it means 'eat?'
Едят is the "they" conjugation of есть. In Russian there is no helping verb in the present tense which means this can be "they eat" or "they are eating".
Is there no other possible word order? What about Nashi koshki yaitsa edyat?
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The singular 'egg' is яйцо. To pluralize neuter words (ending in 'o') you change the o to an a.
It does, but in this sentence "наши кошки" is in the Nominative case. "Наших кошек" would be "our cats" in the Genitive or Accusative case.
"наших кошек" does mean "our cats" however it is the genitive case and here we need to use the nominative
It could also be accusative, in which case you'd literally be saying that the eggs are eating our cats >_>.
- 2566
These are two different words:
едят = third-person plural of есть = They eat
ест = third-person singular of есть = He/she eats
ещё = 'still' as in 'I am still eating' = я ещё ем
You might have meant 'ешь'
ешь = second-person of есть = 'You eat'
- 2566
Also, don't get confused by едут, which is the third-person plural conjugation of ехать, which means 'They go (by car)'
I sometimes confused едят and едут.
наш for singular masculine nouns, наша for singular feminine nouns, наше for singular neuter nouns, and наши for all plural nouns.
Our is наш. Наш дом - our house (singular) наши дети -our children (plural).
Они едят | Они кушают
Кушать is rarely used. For instance I can tell my wife (children) пойдем кушать. It's a soft word for eat, but usually it's пойдем есть.
Then есть is also an another word in russian..? Like у меня есть(I have) .. Then how can we differentiate between both of this words?
Есть is the infinitive of едят. It just happens to look and sound exactly the same as the есть in у тебя есть?, but it is a different word.
In the nominative case, Наш is for masculine words, Наша is for feminine, Наше is neuter, Наши is plural (gender becomes irrelevant). There is a deeper commentary about this with examples if you check the other comments here.
Counter-question: Why do you feel there should be a preposition at the beginning? It would help to understand your thinking to give a more direct answer.
This is a pretty straightforward translation of the sentence in either language, where you have Subject - Verb - Object.
Remind me please what I'm missing. The verb eat is acted on the eggs. If it had been one egg would it have been яйцу or яцйо? Please explain. Thanks
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Accidentally typed "кощки" instead of "кошки" and got it wrong instead of pointing out the typo. Pretty bogus.
- 2566
Yes. You can say коты or кошки. (male or female)
I believe the accent mark is on the ы. It sounds like kat-EE.
