Breakdown of Моя семья завтракает дома.
дома
at home
мой
my / mine
семья
family
завтракать
to have breakfast
Questions & Answers about Моя семья завтракает дома.
Why does завтракает end in -ет?
The verb comes from the infinitive завтракать (to have breakfast), which is a regular first-conjugation verb. Because the subject семья (family) is a singular noun (treated as "she"), we drop the -ть and add the third-person singular ending -ет. Even though a family has multiple people, the grammatical word itself is singular!
The English translation says "is having", but where is that in the Russian sentence?
Russian doesn't have a separate "continuous" tense like English (e.g., "is doing", "are eating"). The single present tense verb завтракает translates to both "has breakfast" (a habit) and "is having breakfast" (happening right now). You just rely on context to know which one it is.
Why does the word for "home" end in an "a" (дома) instead of just дом?
Дом is a noun that means a "house" or "home" as a physical object. Дома is a special adverb that means the location "at home". Whenever you want to describe where an action is happening, you use дома.
Why do we use моя for "my" instead of мой?
Words like "my" must match the gender of the noun they belong to. Because семья ends in -я, it is a feminine noun. Therefore, we must use the feminine form моя instead of the masculine мой or the neuter моё.
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