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Not sure this is a very natural title in English - is this like a manager?
I've had a job entitled administrator. I paid salaries and sent out bills, etc. Not in a café but it is a thing.
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Yeah I totally didn't mean to write it off as a job, I just had a bit of trouble picturing what it involved in this (apparently very well organised) cafe :)
Oh, I didn't take it as an insult or anything ;)
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"Vera is the café's manager" is an accepted translation, fwiw. (As is "Vera is the café manager.")
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Where is "an" indicated? Just assumed? Because I wrote "Vera is administrator of the cafe" and it is incorrect.
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It shouldn't be. You'd be safer writing "the administrator", but you're far from wrong in leaving off "the"
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Unrelated question but does Russian have a word for "barista"?
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Why isn't kafe before administrator? It's an adjective? Is one of those words in a genitive or possessive form?
кафе is in Genitive, though, you cannot really tell because all its forms are the same. Anyway, кафе goes second because this is how you use Genitive modifiers:
- хозяин ресторана = an owner of a the restaurant
- теория относительности = the theory of relativity
- бутылка молока = a bottle of milk
- коробка конфет = a box of candy/chocolates
Thanks Shady_arc for the clarification. So, I assume the genitive here indicates possession, kind of "the administrator of (or pertaining to) the café"
Пожалуйста, господин хозяин ресторана, дайте мне бутылку молока, коробку конфет, и объяснение теории относительности.
This sentence. This is why I joined Duo. (Thank you, Shady Arc.)
