Она шьёт на швейной машине.

she

Breakdown of Она шьёт на швейной машине.

• на: on/for
• швейная машина: the sewing machine
• шить: to sew

Questions & Answers about Она шьёт на швейной машине.

What verb is шьёт, and what person/number is it?

Шьёт is the 3rd person singular form of the verb шить, which means to sew.

So:

• я шью = I sew
• ты шьёшь = you sew
• она шьёт = she sews

In this sentence, она шьёт means she sews or she is sewing, depending on context. Russian present tense can cover both English simple present and present continuous.

How do you pronounce шьёт?

It is pronounced roughly like shyot.

A few important points:

• ш = sh
• ь is the soft sign; it does not have its own sound, but it affects pronunciation
• ё is pronounced yo

So шьёт is not pronounced like sheet or shet. The ё is important here.

Stress falls on ё, and ё is always stressed:

• шьёт

Why is there ё in шьёт? Do Russians always write it?