Дедушка красит забор возле дома.

the house

Breakdown of Дедушка красит забор возле дома.

• дедушка: the grandfather
• возле: near
• забор: the fence

Questions & Answers about Дедушка красит забор возле дома.

Why does дедушка end in -а if it means a male person?

Because some Russian nouns for male people use endings that look like a typical feminine pattern. Дедушка is grammatically masculine, even though it ends in -а.

So in this sentence:

• дедушка = grandfather
• it is masculine
• it is in the nominative singular because it is the subject

This is similar to other masculine nouns like:

• папа = dad
• дядя = uncle
• мужчина = man

So the ending does not always tell you the gender by itself.

What form is красит, and what does it mean grammatically?

Красит is the 3rd person singular present-tense form of the verb красить.

Breakdown:

• красить = to paint
• красит = he/she paints or he/she is painting

Here it agrees with дедушка, so the meaning is:

• Grandfather paints the fence
• or Grandfather is painting the fence

Russian present tense often covers both the simple present and the present continuous, depending on context.

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