Questions & Answers about Почему ты пьёшь холодный кофе?
Why does the verb пьёшь look so different from its dictionary form пить (to drink)?
Пить is a very common but irregular verb. Instead of just dropping the -ть and adding normal endings, the stem changes to пь- and it takes stressed endings with ё. For ты (you), the ending is -ёшь, making it пьёшь. Other forms include я пью (I drink) and он пьёт (he drinks).
The English translation says "are you drinking". Why isn't there a helping verb like "are" in the Russian sentence?
Russian doesn't have a separate continuous tense like English does (am/is/are + -ing). The single present tense verb пьёшь covers both "you drink" as a general habit and "you are drinking" right now.
The word кофе ends in -е. Doesn't that usually make it a neuter noun?
Since холодный кофе is the direct object being drunk, why doesn't the adjective ending change for the accusative case?