Word
Библиотекарь помогает найти нужные книги.
Meaning
The librarian helps to find the books you need.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Библиотекарь помогает найти нужные книги.
книга
the book
библиотекарь
the librarian
помогать
to help
найти
to find
Questions & Answers about Библиотекарь помогает найти нужные книги.
Is библиотекарь masculine or feminine? Can it refer to a woman?
Yes. Библиотекарь is a noun with a masculine grammatical form, but it can refer to either a male or a female librarian.
So:
- Этот библиотекарь помогает... = This librarian (male) helps...
- Эта библиотекарь помогает... = This librarian (female) helps...
In modern Russian, many job titles work like this. The noun itself may look masculine, but the context and the words around it can show whether the person is male or female.
You may also hear библиотекарша, but that can sound informal, old-fashioned, or stylistically marked, so библиотекарь is the safer neutral word.
Why is the verb помогает used here?
Помогает is the 3rd person singular present-tense form of помогать.
Breakdown:
- помогать = to help (imperfective)
- помогает = helps / is helping
It matches библиотекарь, which is a singular subject.
So the structure is:
- Библиотекарь помогает...
- The librarian helps...
Why do we have помогает найти with an infinitive after it?