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- "У неё никогда не болят руки."
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Not a native speaker, so take with a grain of salt unless someone verifies:
But, I think it's because of passive action in the Russian sentence. It's not about her hurting her hands or injuring her hands by her own action - her arms hurt on their own, through no fault of hers.
I think you'd have to use the verb form ранить (to wound/injure). This sentence just means that her hands aren't hurting/sore/in pain.
Yes, actually it can. But this sentence would sound a little bit less natural.
In this sentence you put accent to 'никогда' and it sounds like you are little be angry because of this fact:)
I don't think they do, the hand is just part of the lower arm? Q)Where are your hands? A)At the end of my руки
Her arms are so strong that they don't feel pain?, or are her arms so weak that they can't inflict any pain?
I also thought "She never has arm pain". The "У неё", always makes me think "She has".
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"Her arms are never sore" is marked incorrect 2020-07-28. Does this seem a reasonable translation?
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Yep, sounds close enough. These (болеть) sentences don't translate perfectly, so we must make do with "close enough" translations.
You might hear people say "Her arms don't hurt" or "Her arms have never hurt" or "She's never experienced pain in her arms", but it would be rare to hear "Her arms never hurt" (at least from where I've lived in the US).
I'd expect that in a sort of narrative situation.
—Why didn't she go to the doctor earlier?
—Well, her arms never hurt.
I selected EXACTLY the words above from the word bank, and it was marked wrong - the SECOND TIME in this lesson. C'mon, Duolingo, pull up your socks a bit.
Are you positive of this? I would think that whatever follows никогда не would be genitive over nominative, as it is indicating that she does not and has never possessed the subject, more so than the word being the subject of a verb.
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Well it is the subject of the verb болят and subjects are by definition nominative. The literal translation is: "By her never hurt the arms" or to tweak slightly: "The arms never hurt for her". So there's really no way that "arms" could be genitive here.
Thanks - a handy translation to help remember this word/sentence structure
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If it was a "never has" sentence, it would be у ... никогда нет .... Because it's не instead we know that this is a different kind of sentence.
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Ok. The conjugation/declension app I use has it conjugated differently though, like болею, болеет, болеешь, etc. 2 different verbs with same infinitive but different conjugations? Or are the 2 infinitives stressed differently, i.e. бОлеть vs. болЕть? Strange that my app doesn't appear to even have the one that's conjugated оно болит...
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There are two verbs but they're both pronounced болЕть. The one used here means to hurt, the other has various meanings including to be sick, to be anxious or to cheer for. That one has conjugations in болею etc. Check out Wiktionary:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian
