Когда у дочки озноб, мама даёт ей тёплый чай и смотрит на градусник каждые полчаса.

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Breakdown of Когда у дочки озноб, мама даёт ей тёплый чай и смотрит на градусник каждые полчаса.

• каждый: every
• и: and
• когда: when

Questions & Answers about Когда у дочки озноб, мама даёт ей тёплый чай и смотрит на градусник каждые полчаса.

Does когда mean when or whenever here?

Here it means when/whenever in a general, repeated situation.

So this sentence is not talking about one specific moment only. It means something like:

Whenever the daughter has chills, the mother gives her warm tea and checks the thermometer every half hour.

Russian often uses когда + present tense for this kind of habitual meaning.

Why does Russian say у дочки озноб instead of something like дочка имеет озноб?

Russian very often expresses physical conditions with the pattern:

у + genitive + noun

So у дочки озноб literally means something like at the daughter there is chills, but naturally it means the daughter has chills.

This pattern is very common:

• у меня температура = I have a temperature / fever
• у него кашель = he has a cough
• у ребёнка насморк = the child has a runny nose

Using иметь in these everyday health situations would sound unnatural.

Why is it дочки and not дочка?