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Questions & Answers about Моя сила растет каждый день.
What does each word in Моя сила растет каждый день mean?
• Моя means my and is a possessive adjective that agrees with a feminine noun.
• Сила means strength.
• Растет is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb to grow (from расти).
• Каждый день means every day, where каждый translates to every and день means day.
Why is the verb “растет” in the third-person singular form rather than a first-person form?
Even though the speaker’s strength is being described, the subject in the sentence is the noun сила (“strength”), which is third-person singular. In Russian, verbs agree with their subjects. Since сила is third-person singular, the correct form is растет rather than a first-person form like расту.
How does the possessive adjective “Моя” agree with the noun “сила” in this sentence?
In Russian, adjectives and possessives must agree in gender, number, and case with the noun they modify. Here, сила is a feminine noun in the nominative singular (used as the subject), so the correct form of the possessive is моя. If the noun were masculine or plural, the form would be different.
What is the function of “каждый день” in the sentence, and why is “день” in the singular?
The phrase каждый день acts as an adverbial expression indicating frequency—every day. In Russian, expressions that denote habitual actions typically use the singular form. Although день is singular, this form is standard for indicating a recurring daily action.
How would you modify the sentence to express that your strength was growing every day in the past?
To place the action in the past, change the verb from the present tense растет to its past tense form. For example, you could say:
Моя сила росла каждый день.
Here, росла is the feminine past tense form of the imperfective verb расти, implying that the process of growing in strength was ongoing in the past.