Моя жена сегодня работает дома.

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Breakdown of Моя жена сегодня работает дома.

• дома: at home
• сегодня: today
• работать: to work

Questions & Answers about Моя жена сегодня работает дома.

Why is it моя жена and not мой жена?

In Russian, possessive pronouns agree with the gender of the noun they modify.

• жена (wife) is a feminine noun.
• The feminine form of my is моя.
• The masculine form мой is used with masculine nouns (e.g. мой брат – my brother).

So you get:

• моя жена – my wife
• мой муж – my husband
• моё окно – my window (neuter)
• мои дети – my children (plural)

What tense/aspect is работает, and why does it translate as “is working”?

Работает is:

• present tense
• 3rd person singular
• from the imperfective verb работать (to work)

Russian does not have a special progressive form like English “is working.” The simple present of an imperfective verb usually covers both:

• Она работает. – She works. / She is working.

Context (like сегодня – today) tells us that here it is about what is happening today, so we naturally translate:

• Моя жена сегодня работает дома. – My wife is working at home today.

What is the role of сегодня in the sentence, and where can it go?