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?