Кошка моргнула и снова посмотрела на меня.

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Breakdown of Кошка моргнула и снова посмотрела на меня.

• на: at
• и: and
• меня: me

Questions & Answers about Кошка моргнула и снова посмотрела на меня.

Why is it кошка and not кошку?

Because кошка is the subject of the sentence — the cat is the one doing the actions.

In Russian, the subject normally goes in the nominative case, so:

• кошка = nominative, the cat
• кошку = accusative, the cat as a direct object

Here, the cat blinked and looked, so it must be nominative: кошка.

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Why do the verbs end in -ла: моргнула, посмотрела?

These are past tense feminine singular forms.

In Russian past tense, verbs agree with the subject in gender and number:

• masculine: моргнул
• feminine: моргнула
• neuter: моргнуло
• plural: моргнули

Since кошка is a feminine noun, the verbs are feminine too:

• кошка моргнула
• кошка посмотрела

This is very common in the past tense.

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Why are both verbs in the past tense feminine, even though the subject is only said once?