Word
Он лежит и отдыхает.
Meaning
He is lying down and resting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Он лежит и отдыхает.
и
and
он
he / it (for a masculine noun) / it (for a neuter noun)
отдыхать
to rest
лежать
to lie, be lying down
Questions & Answers about Он лежит и отдыхает.
The lesson is about reflexive verbs. Why doesn't лежит end in -ся if to lie down is reflexive?
English uses lying down for both the action of getting into bed and the state of already being in bed. In Russian, the action of getting into bed is indeed the reflexive verb ложиться (he is lying down = он ложится). But here, он лежит comes from лежать and means he is already flat in a lying position. Since it describes a state rather than an action he is doing to himself, it does not take the -ся ending.
Should отдыхает have a reflexive ending since he is resting himself?
No, the verb отдыхать (to rest) is never reflexive in Russian. Even though it might feel like an action you do to yourself, it simply means to rest, to relax, or to take a vacation, and it never takes a -ся or -сь ending.
Why do the two verbs in this sentence have different endings (-ит vs -ет)?
They belong to the two different Russian verb patterns, often called conjugation groups. Отдыхать (to rest) follows the first pattern, taking the -ет ending for he/she/it (он отдыхает). Лежать (to lie) follows the second pattern, which uses the -ит ending (он лежит).
The English translation says is lying and resting. Where is the word for is?
Russian doesn't have a separate is doing tense like English does. The present tense verbs лежит and отдыхает cover both he lies/rests and he is lying/is resting. You just use the verb itself, so no extra word for is is needed here.