Ребёнок любит кормить уток в парке.

A child likes to feed ducks in the park.

Breakdown of Ребёнок любит кормить уток в парке.

• парк: the park
• в: in
• ребёнок: the child
• любить: to like

Questions & Answers about Ребёнок любит кормить уток в парке.

Why is it Ребёнок, not something like дети or a different word for “child”?

Ребёнок means “child” (one child) in the singular.

• Ребёнок = one child
• Дети = children (plural)

Grammatically:

• Ребёнок is masculine in Russian, even though it can refer to a boy or a girl.
• In this sentence, Ребёнок is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence — the one doing the loving and feeding.

So the structure is:

• Ребёнок (who?) – subject
• любит (what does he/she do?) – verb
• кормить уток в парке – what he/she likes to do.

Why is it любит кормить, not something like любит кормила? How does любить + infinitive work?

In Russian, to say that someone likes doing something in general, you use:

любить + infinitive

Here:

• любит = “(he/she) likes / loves” (3rd person singular of любить)
• кормить = infinitive “to feed”

So Ребёнок любит кормить… = “The child likes to feed…” or “The child likes feeding…”.

You cannot say любит кормила here, because:

• кормила is a past tense form (“she fed”),
• After любить in this meaning, you need the , not a past tense verb.