"Її друзі не чули її."
Translation:Her friends did not hear her.
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Її confuses me here, as the 2 instances are obviously 2 different cases. Can anyone explain? Thanks
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Her friends did not hear her - we have two "her"s here, they mean 2 different cases, just as you say. The first її is possessive pronoun, WHOSE FRIENDS? - HER FRIENDS. The last її is the accusative case of вона (she).
I am still trying to grasp this concept but would not both "hers" be dative, because neither are the subject of the sentence? It seems to me friends are the subject and both the hers support that. Am I wrong?
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None of them is dative. You are right, "friends" are the subject, the first "her" defines it - whose friends? her friends, not his or mine. The last "her" is the object for the verb "heard" - whom didn't they hear? her, not me or themselves. Both "her"s are different forms of the pronoun "she", though they look the same in both Ukrainian and English. This is not the case, eg., for German: ihre Freunde hörten sie nicht (ihre and sie are the forms used in our sentence, but they don't look the same anymore). Or French: ses amis ne l'écoutaitent pas (ses and l'). Hope this was helpful.
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"her friends," "her" is a possessive pronoun. "Hear her," "her" is accusative, the object of the verb.
Nope, they're stressed on the first ї. Listen closely. It's kinda hard to tell here though
As I said, it's hard to tell where the accent falls in this word, especially when it's in the context of a sentence, but if you listened to this word individually while doing exercises, you probably would've agreed with me
How would this be if it were more present tense and on-going? They do not hear her instead of did not?
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It should be accepted, but why complicate it by using the present perfect tense? It's simpler to translate from past tense to past tense.