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Why is the English option "away" instead of "not here" when that obviously would ne a more correct translation?
Genitive feminine of "Ученица"
"Нет" requires the noun it describes to be in the genitive case.
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This would be incorrect in English because you have used "no" instead of "not," and have phrased it unnaturally; "There is not my student here" is strange phrasing indeed. It would be best to phrase it as, "My student is not here."
"there is (not)" is used for indefinite things -- using it for definite things such as "my student" sounds odd.
If they are definite, you already know of their existence.
I think the English variant with the student at the start of the sentence is more idiomatic because English tends to put the subject (nominative) at the start of a sentence.
You could say ‘There is no student of mine here.’. They might not accept that, but they should if they've thought of it.
As mosfet already wrote, the plural form would be: Здесь нет моих учеников (or учениц if all the students were girls)
It means "Здесь нет ни одной из моих учениц" or "Здесь нет никого из моих учеников (учениц)".
Not sure if it should be accepted.
No, the termination ой/ей is fem. the masculine termination would be ого/его, in genitive case.
Perhaps you are thinking of мой, which is masculine nominative -- note no 'e' in it.
Ц doesn't count as a sibilant (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Russian_nouns#Declension_tables); it seems one of a kind.
When нет describes a noun I translate it as "none of 'noun'" to keep a genitive in the translation. i.e. Here none of my student.
...but that makes no sense in English.
Translation doesn't mean going word-for-word; it means producing a sentence in (natural-sounding) English that has the same meaning as the sentence in Russian.
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"My students aren't here" is wrong, but what Would the plural of 'student' Be in this sentence?
"Здесь нет моих учениц" is all students are female, or "здесь нет моих учеников" if they are male or mixed.
