Questions & Answers about Это домашняя работа.
Why do we use Это here instead of Эта, even though работа is feminine?
When you are pointing something out and saying 'This is a...', you always use the fixed word Это, regardless of the noun's gender. You would only use the feminine Эта if it was directly attached to the noun to describe it, like in Эта домашняя работа... (This homework...).
Most feminine adjectives end in -ая. Why does домашняя end in -яя?
Since we are learning the genitive plural, how would the adjective домашняя change if we used it in that case?
It would become домашних. Because домашний is a soft-stem adjective, it takes the soft -их ending rather than the hard -ых ending. For example, if you wanted to say 'a lot of homework assignments', you would use the genitive plural: много домашних работ.
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