"This is my girlfriend; she likes to sleep."
Translation:Это моя девушка, она любит спать.
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I still don't understand the difference between это and ета. Can someone clarify?
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)
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)
That was wonderful and well explained.. Thought maybe the last four statements should be without capitals, as if to follow the Duo rules..
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девочка is for a little girl, девушка is for an older girl (teenager) and for a girlfriend.
A teenager is still "девочка". "Девушка" is mostly twenty something, with the inlusion of late teens and early thirties.
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This question might be a little weird. Do Russians say девушка as девочка during "those" times? Like how in English baby, babes or daddy are used?
"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."
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по русски не говорят "она любит спать". Говорят "она любит поспать". Модераторы, не нужно коверкать язык!
But She won't be your girlfriend any longer after this kinda introduction!
это моя девушка а она любит спать Why no "a"? I thought it connected two idea together??
