Эта подписка платная.

This subscription is paid.

Breakdown of Эта подписка платная.

• эта: this
• платный: paid
• подписка: the subscription

Questions & Answers about Эта подписка платная.

What are the individual words in Эта подписка платная and what do they correspond to in English grammar?

• Эта – demonstrative pronoun/adjective: this (feminine, singular, nominative).
• подписка – noun: subscription (feminine, singular, nominative).
• платная – short-form adjective: paid / not free / requiring payment (feminine, singular, nominative, predicate form).

So grammatically it’s literally “This subscription paid (is).” The verb “is” is just omitted in Russian.

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Why is there no word for “is” in this sentence? Why not Эта подписка есть платная?

In Russian, the verb быть (to be) is normally dropped in the present tense when you say “X is Y”.

So:

• Эта подписка платная. = This subscription is paid / not free.

You would normally not say есть here.
Using есть (Эта подписка есть платная) sounds either wrong or very unnatural in modern Russian.

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