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Questions & Answers about Внимательный врач слушает.
This lesson is about adverbs. How would I change this sentence to say 'The doctor listens attentively'?
Why does the word внимательный end in -ый?
Does the verb слушает tell us if the doctor is a man or a woman?
No. In the present tense, Russian verbs only change based on the grammatical person (I, you, he/she/it), not their gender. The ending -ет is used for any third-person singular subject. Note that the masculine adjective внимательный is used here because words for professions like врач are grammatically masculine, even if the specific doctor happens to be a woman.
The English translation says 'An attentive doctor', but where is the word for 'An'?
Russian does not have articles like 'a', 'an', or 'the'. Depending on the context of the surrounding conversation, Внимательный врач can mean either 'An attentive doctor' or 'The attentive doctor'.