"This is my girlfriend; she likes to sleep."

Translation: Это моя девушка, она любит спать.

[SvenEtienne]

Relationship goals

[itajaja]

I still don't understand the difference between это and ета. Can someone clarify?

[Superuncia]

это = This is (for making a statement) or this (as a determiner for the neuter words)

эта = This (as a determiner for the feminine words)

[itajaja]

Thanks!

[kimajin]

Девушка isnt feminine word?

[Superuncia]

It is.

But the word это here isn't a determiner, or a word which refers to which girlfriend you are talking about (this one or that one), but a statement-maker, which is a word which introduces who or what are you talking about (it/this/that/these/those is/are a/an/the ...).

Это as statement maker never agrees with the following word;

• Это шапка (This is a hat)
• Это насок (This is a sock)
• Это пальто (This is a coat)
• Это брюки (These are some trousers)

But это as a determiner always does;

• Эта шапка (This hat)
• Этот насок (This sock)
• Это пальто (This coat)
• Эти брюки (These trousers)

[NoNo730245]

"What are your defining charasteristics?"

"I like sleeping"

[juandenil]

девушка девочка - What's the difference, if any?

[janey_p]

девочка is for a little girl, девушка is for an older girl (teenager) and for a girlfriend.

[Kundoo]

A teenager is still "девочка". "Девушка" is mostly twenty something, with the inlusion of late teens and early thirties.

[Marvel...]

Sounds like someone introducing me.

[Dejo]

Why can't you say: Это моя девушка; её нравится спать.

[JanisaChatte]

You'd have to say: "Это моя девушка, ей нравится спать." then.

[Peatsickle]

"Её" is the genitive/accusative form of the pronoun "она," but "нравиться" requires that the logical subject (the person that likes the thing) be in dative case. So, you could say "ей нравится спать."

[michael585]

Is the word она neccessary here?

[Kundoo]

Yes.

[OscarO.10]

What's wrong with вот instead of это?

[7H011]

по русски не говорят "она любит спать". Говорят "она любит поспать". Модераторы, не нужно коверкать язык!

[TEETUS1]

Doesn't 'спать' mean 'sing'?

[Kohvikruus]

No. Sing=петь.

[Kohvikruus]

А почему не “Та“?

[JustLearnen]

это моя девушка а она любит спать
Why no "a"? I thought it connected two idea together??

[Nick941030]

"Была моя девушка", if you keep introducing her like that.

[SBan11]

Can anybody elaborate the difference between love &like?

[matheus110641]

Why or when I have to use "ей"

[Max338411]

This is a strange phrase!