"ваш папа и ваша мама"
Translation:your dad and your mom
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Note that although "папа" looks like a feminine noun (ends with "а"), it is masculine, of course. It declines exactly like "мама", but uses masculine forms of adjectives and adjective-like words.
Just came here to say that this is a really great didactic sentence: in the lesson for genders, you're showing two words of two different genders and showing how the same adjective declines to match them.
There should be more questions like this throughout the course.
"Ваш" is used when you are on "вы" terms with someone, and "твой" corresponds to "ты".
DON'T GET MAD! but i still don't get how "вы" and "ты" differ! can you explain please.
Both mean "you", but you use "вы/ваш" with strangers or in formal relations e.g. at work, and "ты/твой" informally e.g. with friends, children and family.
BUT apart from the formal use directed towards one person, you also use "вы/ваш" when you're talking about or to a group of people. Say, you want to express that a group of people, e.g. sisters have one dad, you say (directly to the group) "это ваш папа", which in english is also translated with "this is your Dad"
I confuse it with the plural form of "Наш". Is "Ваш львы" correct? How would someone say it on "вы" terms if at all possible?
To my (American) ear it should be "mother and father" in English just like "Ladies and gentlemen"
I've also just automatically translated this wrongly as mum and dad because in Britain that is the order you would always use.
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I've been drilling these lessons - so repeating them a lot. Every single time I answer 'mum and dad' and get dinged for it! It seems to me the way translations should really work is: 1) read sentence(s); 2) derive meaning; 3) construct natural equivalent in the target language.... 'dad & mum' just hurts! But I suppose they're also verifying we know how the nouns map, so therein lies the quandary.
Is that the customary order in Russian or is it just to test our understanding?
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I used "father" and "mother" and was marked wrong. Are these strictly familiar terms? Then why would you use ваш?
In English we would translate that as 'your mom and your dad.' The fixed sequence 'mom and dad' is very strong in English. It's like bread and butter. You never say those words the other way round, do you? Further comment and examples: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/121756/mom-and-dad-vs-dad-and-mom
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Could something like "ваш папа и мама" be used in Russian to mean the same thing? (Sorry, I'm not sure what form "ваш" would take, or if it's even possible.)
Or would this have different meaning or implication, or does it simply not make sense to skip the second determiner?
This is such an odd thing because in English I don't think it's common to repeat the "Your" or "and" or "not" part of the sentence but it seems necessary in Russian.
