Билетёрша проверила мой билет у входа.

Билетёрша means a female ticket attendant / usher / ticket checker — a woman whose job is to check tickets at the entrance to a cinema, theater, concert hall, etc.

A few useful notes:

• It is built from билетёр = male ticket attendant
• The ending -ша makes it specifically female
• The word can sound a bit colloquial or old-fashioned in some contexts

In modern Russian, people might also say things like:

• контролёрша / контролёр
• сотрудница на входе
• женщина, проверяющая билеты

But билетёрша is still understandable and natural in the right setting.

Because this is a past tense verb agreeing with a feminine singular subject.

The subject is билетёрша, which is feminine, so the verb is:

• проверил = he checked
• проверила = she checked
• проверило = it checked
• проверили = they checked

So Билетёрша проверила... means The female ticket attendant checked...

This is a question of aspect.

• проверить → perfective
• проверять → imperfective

Проверила is the past tense of the perfective verb проверить, and it presents the action as a completed whole: she checked the ticket.

So this sentence focuses on the completed event:

• Билетёрша проверила мой билет = She checked my ticket

If you said проверяла, that would usually suggest:

• an ongoing process,
• repeated checking,
• or background action.

For example:

• Билетёрша проверяла билеты весь вечер. = The ticket attendant was checking tickets all evening.

Because билет is the direct object of проверила, so it is in the accusative case.

For inanimate masculine nouns, the accusative singular is the same as the nominative singular:

• nominative: мой билет
• accusative: мой билет

So although the case has changed grammatically, the form stays the same.

Compare with an animate masculine noun, where the accusative would look different:

• Я вижу моего брата. = I see my brother

But:

• Я вижу билет. = I see a ticket

Because the preposition у requires the genitive case.

• вход = entrance
• genitive singular: входа

So:

• у входа = by the entrance / at the entrance

This is a very common pattern:

• у дома = by the house
• у двери = by the door
• у метро = by the metro station

Here it tells you where the ticket was checked.

They are similar, but not always identical.

• у входа = by the entrance, physically near it
• на входе = at the entrance / on entry, often with the sense of the entry point or checkpoint

In this sentence, у входа is very natural and means the ticket attendant checked the ticket near the entrance.

You could also hear:

• На входе проверили мой билет. = They checked my ticket at the entrance / on entry.

That version sounds a little more like at the point of entry rather than just near the entrance.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible.

The neutral order here is:

• Билетёрша проверила мой билет у входа.

This simply presents the information in a natural way: subject → verb → object → place.

But you could change the order for emphasis:

• У входа билетёрша проверила мой билет.
  Emphasis on where it happened.
• Мой билет билетёрша проверила у входа.
  Emphasis on my ticket.
• Проверила мой билет билетёрша у входа.
  Grammatically possible, but less neutral and more marked.

Russian uses word order more for focus and emphasis than English does.

Yes. They are closely related.

• билет = ticket
• билетёр / билетёрша = ticket attendant, literally a person connected with tickets

So in this sentence you get both:

• билетёрша = the woman checking tickets
• билет = the ticket itself

That can feel repetitive to an English speaker, but it is completely normal in Russian.

Because the stressed vowel in this word is ё:

• билетёрша

In Russian, ё is always stressed.

In everyday writing, Russians often omit the dots and write билетерша, but the pronunciation is still the same. For learners, it is helpful to remember that the intended pronunciation is with ё, not plain е.

Yes, it is understandable and natural.

That said, билетёрша may sound a bit:

• colloquial,
• slightly old-fashioned,
• or tied to places like theaters and cinemas.

Depending on context, modern speakers might also say:

• На входе сотрудница проверила мой билет.
• Контролёр проверила мой билет у входа.
  (if the job is ticket control)
• Женщина на входе проверила мой билет.

But your sentence is still a good, normal example of Russian grammar.

Yes, sometimes.

Russian often omits possessives when ownership is obvious from context. So you might hear:

• Билетёрша проверила билет у входа.

This can still mean The ticket attendant checked my ticket at the entrance, especially if the situation makes it clear whose ticket is being discussed.

However, мой билет is perfectly natural if you want to be explicit or contrast it with someone else’s ticket.

If there were several female attendants, you would say:

• Билетёрши проверили мой билет у входа.

Changes:

• билетёрша → билетёрши (plural)
• проверила → проверили (plural past tense)

If the object stays singular, мой билет does not need to change.

The dictionary forms are:

• билетёрша → already in dictionary form
• проверила → проверить
• мой → мой
• билет → билет
• у → у
• входа → вход

So if you were looking these up, the main verb would be under проверить, and входа would be found under вход.