Lesson 20

Special question related to inanimate objects / Вопрос "Что это?"

As you know, nouns denoting humans or animals (so-called animate nouns) answer the question "Кто́ это?" (Who is it?).

All other nouns (so-called inanimate nouns) answer the question Что́ это? What is it?
Note that the word что is pronounced as [што].

Что́ это? — Э́то кни́га.

What is this? — This is a book.

To each image below ask the question "What is this?" and answer the question. Click on the images to check yourself.

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