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I believe this is because 'are you seeing her' is likely to be understood to mean you have an appointment to see her, and this is clearly not the meaning of the Russian sentence.
Do you see her - is sshe within your field of vision
Are you seeing her - are you meeting/dating her or as said above, do youhave an appoinment with her.
Because pronoun objects are usually placed before the verb. But this is true only for pronouns, nouns usually follow the verb.
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So, for example, if I were to say "Вы видите Вера?" or "Вы видите девочку", then it is okay to put "Вера" and "девочку" after the verb?
Yes, «Вы ви́дите Ве́ру?» and «Вы ви́дите де́вочку?» is the most natural word order.
Note that Ве́ра is declined in the same way as де́вочка, so it takes the ending -у in the accusative case.
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Thanks! I didn't know proper nouns like first names also needed to be declined. So many things to think about! Cheers!
With the new male voice this sounds like вы я видите, which is of course ungrammatical. Reported.
I believe "are you seeing her" is not a question about the sight, it's a question about meeting the person, right? If so, it can't be translated «Вы её ви́дите?».
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No one speaks that fast un less youre calling 911 and a train us about to run over your head.
Roughly speaking,
- она = she,
- её = her.
It's more complicated than that because Russian has more forms than English, but I hope you get the idea.
