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Даже если вода прохладная, дочка всё равно хочет плескаться и нырять вместе с братом.
Meaning
Even if the water is cool, my daughter still wants to splash around and dive with her brother.
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Breakdown of Даже если вода прохладная, дочка всё равно хочет плескаться и нырять вместе с братом.
вода
the water
с
with
и
and
прохладный
cool
Questions & Answers about Даже если вода прохладная, дочка всё равно хочет плескаться и нырять вместе с братом.
Why does the sentence use both даже если and всё равно?
This is a very common Russian pattern:
- даже если = even if
- всё равно = still / anyway
Together they create the idea:
- Even if the water is cool, the daughter still wants...
Russian often likes this double marking of contrast. In English, we can say either:
- Even if the water is cool, she still wants to...
- or simply Even if the water is cool, she wants to...
In Russian, adding всё равно sounds very natural and emphasizes that the result does not change.
Could the sentence work without всё равно?
Yes, it could:
- Даже если вода прохладная, дочка хочет плескаться и нырять вместе с братом.
This is grammatical, but всё равно adds emphasis: she wants to do it despite that fact.
So:
- without всё равно = neutral
- with всё равно = more explicit contrast, closer to still / anyway
What exactly does даже если mean here? Is it the same as just если?