Дочка уже в пижаме, а мама всё ещё ищет свой халат.

Дочка is a common, affectionate everyday word meaning daughter or little daughter.

• дочь is the basic dictionary form and can sound more formal or neutral.
• дочка is very natural in family-style speech.

So this sentence sounds warm and ordinary, like something you would say at home.

Because в here means in and expresses a state or location, so Russian uses the prepositional case.

• пижама → nominative
• в пижаме → prepositional

This is the normal pattern:

• в школе = at school
• в комнате = in the room
• в пижаме = in pajamas

So Дочка уже в пижаме literally means The daughter is already in pajamas.

In the present tense, Russian usually does not use a word for is/are.

So:

• Дочка уже в пижаме = The daughter is already in pajamas

There is no present-tense equivalent of is that needs to be said in normal Russian sentences like this.

А often links two clauses with a sense of contrast or comparison, while и simply means and.

Here the idea is:

• the daughter is already ready,
• but/while the mother is still looking for her robe.

So а works well because the two situations are being compared:

• Дочка уже в пижаме, а мама всё ещё ищет свой халат.

It can often be translated as and, while, or but, depending on context.

Уже means already.

It shows that something has happened earlier than expected or that the situation is now true:

• Дочка уже в пижаме = The daughter is already in pajamas

It often appears before the word or phrase it emphasizes, but Russian word order is flexible.

Всё ещё means still.

It emphasizes that an action or state is continuing:

• мама всё ещё ищет = mom is still looking

You can think of it as something like continues even now.

A spelling note:

• You may also see все еще without ё in normal writing.
• But the meaning here is всё ещё = still, not all yet or anything like that.

Ищет is the 3rd person singular present tense of искать = to look for / to search for.

• я ищу = I am looking for
• ты ищешь = you are looking for
• она ищет = she is looking for

The verb искать is imperfective, which makes sense here because the action is ongoing:

• she has not found the robe yet,
• she is in the process of looking for it.

If you used a perfective verb, the meaning would shift toward finding/completing the action, not the process.

Russian often uses свой to mean one’s own when the possessor is the same as the subject of the clause.

Here:

• subject = мама
• the robe belongs to the mother
• so Russian prefers свой халат = her own robe

This is very natural Russian.

If you said её халат, it could mean her robe, but it may sound less natural here or could suggest someone else’s robe, depending on context.

So:

• мама ищет свой халат = mom is looking for her own robe

Свой and халат are in the accusative case because they are the direct object of ищет.

The thing being looked for is the object:

• ищет что? → свой халат

Now for the forms:

• халат is masculine singular and inanimate
• for masculine inanimate nouns, accusative = nominative

So:

• nominative: халат
• accusative: халат

And the adjective/pronoun matches it:

• свой халат

If the noun were feminine, the ending would likely change more clearly.

Мама usually feels like mom / mum, not formal mother.

It is the normal everyday family word.
If you wanted a more formal or literary word, you would use мать.

So this sentence sounds natural and domestic, not formal.

Russian word order is flexible, but this version is very natural.

It presents the contrast clearly:

• Дочка уже в пижаме — first situation
• а мама всё ещё ищет свой халат — contrasting second situation

The adverbs are placed where they sound most natural:

• уже highlights that the daughter is already ready
• всё ещё highlights that the mother is still searching

You could move some words around, but the sentence might sound more marked or place emphasis differently.

Yes. In natural English, Дочка уже в пижаме can mean:

• The daughter is already in pajamas
• The daughter is already wearing pajamas

Russian often uses в + clothing item to describe what someone is dressed in:

• в пальто = in a coat / wearing a coat
• в шапке = in a hat / wearing a hat
• в пижаме = in pajamas / wearing pajamas

So this is a very common and useful structure.

No. Russian does not have articles like a/an/the.

So:

• дочка could mean the daughter or a daughter, depending on context
• мама could mean the mother / mom
• халат could mean a robe or the robe

In this sentence, English would normally use the daughter, mom, and her robe, because the context makes them specific.