"Чьё молоко ты пьёшь?"
Translation:Whose milk are you drinking?
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Some ancient human decided to try cow milk and then thought it was a good idea to show his tribe, and somehow they didn't think he was some freak. If you did something similar to that now, you'd probably be banned from school playgrounds.
I understand that you are joking, but it is interesting to note what far ancient humans were willing to go, trough trial and error. Think how many people died before it was common knowledge what plants and mushrooms are poisonous. Milk consumption started after domestication for meat. "Hey, it's actually not that bad, this means we can get good stuff from cows even when they are still alive. Neat". And there is evidence that humans consumed milk before we evolved to properly digest it. I don't know about you, but I find it fascinating.
So wait, is it someone's milk (a person owns it) or milk from an animal (an animal made it)?
I would have thought the sentence was referring to a brand- a better version of the question would be which brand of milk do you like?
Чьё молоко ты пьёшь? Translation is "whose milk are you drinking?" Then what will be the russian translation for "whose milk do you drink?" Plz help!
It would be the same. Russian only has one present tense. You drink, you are drinking, and you do drink could all be translated as ты пьёшь.
English is not my mother- tongue. So - is it really so wrong to say: Who's milk do you drink?
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Yes. “Who’s” is short for “Who is,” which asks a question about identity. “Whose” is a word which asks about possession. In speech, who’s and whose sound identical, but are substantially different words. Because of this, “Who is milk do you drink?” is ungrammatical. I hope this is helpful to you. Please let me know if I did not help to clarify this.
Danke schön! Thank you very much for your explanation! I mixed these things up.
If the sentence were "Whose milk is it?", what would it be in Russian? Чьё это молоко? Or Чьё молоко? Or ... ?
If I want to say 'whose' how do I know whether it would be, according to the gender, кого or чеи чья чьи