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Russian Text:
На фотографии изображена девочка в желтом платье. Она обнимает большую собаку.

English Translation:
The picture shows a young girl in a yellow dress. She is hugging a large dog.

Grammar Notes:
Russian sentence:
На фотографии изображена девочка в желтом платье. Она обнимает большую собаку.
Na fotografii izobrazhena devochka v zheltom plat'ye. Ona obnimayet bol'shuyu sobaku.

| Russian | Romanisation | Meaning | Grammar |
|---|---|---|---|
| На | na | on / in | Preposition. Here it means “in” with фотографии and takes the prepositional case. |
| фотографии | fotografii | photograph | Noun, feminine, prepositional singular of фотография. After на, it means “in the photograph”. |
| изображена | izobrazhena | is shown / is depicted | Short passive participle, feminine singular. It agrees with девочка. Infinitive: изобразить. |
| девочка | devochka | girl | Noun, feminine, nominative singular. Subject of изображена. |
| в | v | in | Preposition. Here it introduces clothing/state and takes the prepositional case. |
| желтом | zheltom | yellow | Adjective, neuter, prepositional singular. It agrees with платье. The standard spelling is жёлтом, pronounced zhyoltom. |
| платье | plat'ye | dress | Noun, neuter, prepositional singular. After в, it means “in a dress”. |
| Она | ona | she | Personal pronoun, feminine, nominative singular. Subject of обнимает. It refers back to девочка. |
| обнимает | obnimayet | hugs / is hugging | Verb, third person singular present, imperfective. Infinitive: обнимать. Its object takes the accusative case. |
| большую | bol'shuyu | big / large | Adjective, feminine, accusative singular. It agrees with собаку. |
| собаку | sobaku | dog | Noun, feminine, accusative singular. Direct object of обнимает. |

Grammar tip: Russian adjectives and participles must agree with the noun they describe in gender, number and case. Here жёлтом is neuter prepositional to match платье, while большую is feminine accusative to match собаку. Location or clothing phrases such as на фотографии and в жёлтом платье use the prepositional case, while the direct object after обнимает uses the accusative case.

Related words:
- фотография → фотограф (photographer), фотографировать (to photograph)
- изобразить → изображение (image, depiction), изображать (to depict)
- девочка → девочки (girls), девичий (girlish)
- платье → платьице (little dress), платья (dresses)
- обнимать → обнять (to hug once), объятие (hug), обниматься (to hug each other)
- собака → собачий (dog’s, canine), собачка (little dog)
- большой → больше (bigger), больший (greater)
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