How to use demonstrative pronouns in Russian

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Russian demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' has different forms in Russian depending on whether the word to which it belongs is masculine, feminine or neuter. The demonstrative pronoun for masculine words is 'этот'. For feminine words, it is 'эта' and for neuter words it is 'это'.

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éta žénšina

this woman

éta lóšadz

this horse

éta köníga

this book

état čelavék

this person

état dom

this house

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Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns книга, стул and дверь (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Russian demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Russian demonstrative pronouns with the nouns книга, стул and дверь and the plural nouns книги, стулья and двери you can move on to Step 7 (Russian adjectives).

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