"У моей сестры в комнате стоит большая и удобная кровать."
Translation:There is a large and comfortable bed in my sister's room.
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Well, thanks for the pointer; I shall bear that in mind.
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Can you accept "large comfortable bed ..." as a correct translation? The word "and" is not often used between adjectives. Translating literally "large and comfortable bed ...." sounds strange.
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What is the difference between «у моей сестры в комнате» and «в комнате моей сестры»?
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The first is very common, the second sounds quite formal and stiff. Any word can be emphasized by intonation in either phrase.
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I think it's the emphasis: 1 - 'моя сестра' is emphasised and 2 - 'комната'
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'there is a big comfortable bed in my sister's room' - is marked wrong. It sounds awkward with 'and' although that's not wrong. But what I wrote is not wrong and sounds more natural.
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I understood the phrase but the word order freaked me out ! Lol
What case should the large comfortable bed be in? As the answer is given, it appears to be nominative, but surely (as the object of the verb стоит) it should take the accusative case? Why doesn't it?
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The bed is not the object, but the subject of the verb стоит (the verb is intransitive, which means it cannot take direct objects). And you were right assuming that the case is nominative. By the way, with feminine nouns such as кровать (ending in ь) there is no difference between accusative and nominative forms.
Remember from the "There Is" skill that this type of phrasing corresponds to the English "There is an X in/on/etc the Y". This question may be insisting on that. My fluency isn't yet strong enough to comment whether strictness is warranted. Native speaker?
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You are right. The given Russian sentence can also be rendered in English as “My sister has a large and comfortable bed in her room”.
