Breakdown of Что она думает обо мне?
она
she / it (for a feminine noun)
я
I
что
what
думать
to think
о
about (о, об, обо)
Questions & Answers about Что она думает обо мне?
Why is the word for "about" spelled обо here instead of о or об?
The preposition meaning "about" is usually о. However, it changes to make pronunciation easier. It becomes об before vowels, and it becomes обо before certain words starting with difficult consonant clusters. The word мне starts with two consonants, so we say обо мне.
Why do we use мне instead of меня for "me"?
The preposition о / об / обо requires the following word to be in the Prepositional case. While меня is the form used for direct objects (the Accusative case), the Prepositional form of the pronoun я (I) is мне.
I've seen мне used to mean "to me" before. Is this the same thing?
You have a good memory! Мне is also the Dative case form, often translating to "to me" (like in Мне нравится - I like). For the pronoun я (I), the Dative and Prepositional cases happen to share the exact same spelling: мне. You can tell it is Prepositional here because it follows the preposition обо.
Why does the verb end in -ет (думает)?
The dictionary form of the verb is думать (to think). Because the subject of the sentence is она (she), we must conjugate it for the "he/she/it" form. We drop the -ть ending and add -ет.
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