Breakdown of Спасательница показала детям, как помочь пострадавшему до приезда врача.
Questions & Answers about Спасательница показала детям, как помочь пострадавшему до приезда врача.
Спасательница is the feminine form of спасатель and means a female rescuer / female lifeguard / female emergency worker, depending on context.
Russian often has:
- спасатель = masculine form
- спасательница = explicitly feminine form
In modern Russian, the masculine job title can sometimes be used generically, but спасательница makes it clear that the rescuer is a woman.
This also affects the verb:
- спасательница показала = the female rescuer showed
- спасатель показал = the male rescuer showed
So the noun and past-tense verb match in gender.
In the past tense, Russian verbs agree with the subject in gender and number.
For показать in the past tense:
- показал = masculine singular
- показала = feminine singular
- показало = neuter singular
- показали = plural
Since the subject is спасательница, which is feminine singular, the correct form is показала.