Word
Кот отдыхает в твоей спальне.
Meaning
The cat is resting in your bedroom.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Кот отдыхает в твоей спальне.
кот
cat
твой
your [informal]
отдыхать
to rest
в
in / to (direction)
Questions & Answers about Кот отдыхает в твоей спальне.
Why does the word for "your" look like твоей here?
This is the Prepositional case of the possessive pronoun твой (your). We are describing a location using the preposition в (in), which triggers the Prepositional case. Since the noun it describes (спальня) is feminine, we must use the feminine Prepositional form твоей.
Why does спальне end with an -е instead of its normal -я ending?
The dictionary form of the word is спальня (bedroom). Because it follows the preposition в to show location, it must be in the Prepositional case. For feminine nouns ending in -я, the Prepositional ending changes to -е.
What is the dictionary form of отдыхает?
The dictionary form is отдыхать (to rest). It is a standard regular verb, so to say "he/she/it rests" (referring to the cat), we drop the -ть from the end and add the third-person singular ending -ет.
Could I use кошка instead of кот here?
Yes! Кот specifically means a male cat, while кошка is a female cat but is also used as the general word for the animal. If you do not know the cat's gender or it does not matter, you can easily say Кошка отдыхает в твоей спальне.