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- "She has twenty students."
"She has twenty students."
Translation:У неё двадцать учеников.
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as I understand (not native speaker) you shouldn't use "есть" if it's a compound noun. see: у неё есть студент у неё два студента
студентов refers to university/college students whereas учеников is for pupils or younger students at a much lower class than that of higher education.
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that doesn't explain why it's wrong but just that there are different words for different levels of students imo. So at risk of drawing anger, "why is it wrong"?
This question doesn't specify whether it's school or university students. If the question does not stipulate, then I see no reason студентов should not be equally accepted here with учеников.
Unless anyone can point out something implied in the question that I missed...?
How do you know that a word in Genitive plural is stressed at -ов or at the "original" syllable? Are there patterns?
: ( no... Russian stress is stressful. It helps to listen to lots of native speakers, for instance on youtube
Why is this wrong? у нее 20 студентов Must I write out the number, or because I didn't mark the ё?
Well, you're here to study Russian. So you also have to practice numbers over and over again. :) You must write it as a number.
