"Она моя сестра."

Translation: She is my sister.

[Jondude]

Моя for feminine?

[cheesegazelle]

Yep!

[vivienleig3]

Sestraaaaa

[WaaDoku]

I hear моя and сестра for the first time on this course. Why is it that some new words are marked as such and some are not?

[GlauconAri]

моя is just a new form of мой, used for feminine nouns.

[abdullah14431]

Perfect explain thanks

[JwithaW]

New words are marked in yellow. Words you should know are gray.

[Denis238941]

Она really sounds me like Anna

[Hippopigamus]

It is. In Russian when O is not stressed it sounds like an A.

[Sue98781]

I frequently have the same problem with она/Анна

[brandizzi]

Is сестра a loanword from English?

[keihne]

No, it's just a word that's very similar in most Indo-European languages.

[Contemno_I]

Well I don't know other languages but in Italian it's "sorella", in Spanish it's "hermana" and in Modern Greek it's "αδελφή"

[YaPrGa]

Actually it is derived from *sestra in
Proto-Slavic which is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all the Slavic languages.

Сестра has another meaning in Russian - nurse

[flovember]

Same in German with Schwester

[Alexis217645]

Just as in English "Sister" used to be the correct official form of address to any nurse (who was not in charge of a ward, that was "Matron", from the Latin for "mother:). Now that nurses can be men, the titles have changed.
I believe that the origin of this lies in the fact that the first hospitals were run by nuns; the religious titles were preserved, even for secular nurses.

[Kundoo]

In Russian the term for a female nurse is in fact "медсестра" (the full term is "медицинская сестра"), while a male nurse is "медбрат". :)

[StefanStoj5]

It's the same for nearly all Slavic languages and its root is from PIE

[froggylotte]

Can она моя be used in a way as "this is my girlfriend, she is mine"?

[dandylaksa]

Это моя девушка,она моя i guess

[KangIanRichard]

So, the uses of "моя" "мой" depending on what gender is the noun, right(?)

If I were a girl (feminine), then the sentence "Он мой брат" is still correct? or should I change it to "Он моя брат"?

[keinemeinung]

The adjective declines based on the gender of the object it is modifying, NOT based on the gender of the person using it. So it would 100% have to be мой брат regardless of who's talking.

[KangIanRichard]

Ok ok... Thanks for the explanation :D

[AlexanderAlight]

Why is one of the translations she is mine?....

[BenCovey]

Why does the computer pronounce an extra syllable between моя and сестра?

[suhanoves]

I am a native Russian speaker and i can tell you that i cannot hear extra syllable between моя and сестра. The computer voice here is not good, but this sentence is pronounced very well.

[dimwit720]

Don't forget that я is pronounced "ya", so моя is a 2-syllable word.

[Jackie705009]

Yay! Now I know how to say sister in Russian