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Questions & Answers about Хребет підтримує голову.
What does хребет mean here?
Here хребет means the spine, backbone, or spinal column.
A learner should know that хребет can also mean a ridge (for example, a mountain ridge) in other contexts, but in this sentence it clearly means the spine/backbone because it is connected with голову (the head).
It is a masculine singular noun in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence.
Why is it голову and not голова?
Because голову is in the accusative case, not the nominative.
- голова = nominative singular, used for the subject
- голову = accusative singular, used for the direct object
In this sentence, the spine is doing the action, and the head is receiving the action:
- Хребет = subject
- підтримує = supports
- голову = direct object
So Ukrainian changes голова to голову.
What form is підтримує?