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You'll have to babysit her, too. {= her as well as him}
In conversation, I wanted to express this idea in an sarcastic tone:
Тебе ещё и с ней нянчиться придётся.
{or}: Тебе ещё с ней нянчиться придётся.
I'm torn between the two. I wonder if the addition of "и" is required here and the latter sounds odd?
Ещё on its own means 'more', not 'too':
Your variant:
is pretty much equivalent to the above.
Еще и means 'too' but be careful with emphasis and placement:
Еще и с ней puts emphasis on ней (her) which implies that you were babysitting someone else and now you will have to babysit her, too.
Ещё и нянчиться emphasises нянчиться which is probably what you wanted:
The syntax depends on what you're trying to convey
Тебе ещё и с ней нянчиться придётся
as explained by Sergey Slepov
Тебе ещё { } с ней нянчиться придётся
I would read as emphasizing нянчиться, i.e. on top of all the troubles you'll have to do also babysitting.
Technically it can be construed as emphasizing ещё to mean doing some more babysitting to what has already been done. But if this is indeed the idea, to lessen ambiguity i would place ещё at the end
Тебе { } с ней нянчиться придётся ещё
This is still not ideal but i think a little clearer and context may help.
In spoken language the syntax is less demanding because import can be emphasized with intonation.
Adding и before the word needing emphasis seems to resolve this ambiguity, ещё isn't one of them however.
в прошлом году; B) Дорогой подарок в прошлом году подарил мне он; С) Дорогой подарок в прошлом году он подарил мне; D) Подарок в прошлом году он мне подарил/он подарил мне/подарил он мне дорогой
May 13, 2018 at 7:09
Тебе ещё с ней нянчиться придётся.
This is more neutral tone, as if the sayer were reminding the listener. "You will have to babysit her as well, don't forget, so you will have little spare time!"
Тебе ещё и с ней нянчиться придётся.
This sounds like the sayer were discouraging the listener from something.
I would extend upon Sergey's answer too.
Тебе с ней ещё нянчиться придется. - You'll have to do more babysitting with her.
I disagree here. I would say that phrase conveys "start" rather than "more": "You'll have to start babysit her". The "more" motive might be implied here of course. Like, if you are babysiting 10 persons, adding 11th to the list is making more of the babysitting. Or, if you focus on time/effort spent, then starting babysitting makes you spend yet more time.
But those ideas are different.
You'll have to do more babysitting with her.
implies that
Those implications are missing in "Тебе с ней ещё [потом] нянчиться придется". What actually implied here is surprise, unexpected consequences.
You do not expect that your current decision would later add babysitting her to your current list of burdens, but it will. Think again if you want to make your burdens yet heavier than they already are. There would be a price to pay that you overlook and do not expect yet.
That is what conveyed here. "To all your chores, you would later have to babysit her as well", like this.
This notion of unexpected consequences, of a probably unpleasant surprise incoming is what conveyed by "ещё" here.
Еще и с ней puts emphasis on ней (her) which implies that you were babysitting someone else and now you will have to babysit her, too.
Absolutely correct.
Ещё и нянчиться emphasises нянчиться
...and emphasizes it in the way, that you already has some list of activities you do with her, and now that list would get extended with babysitting.
Like, you were providing for her with money, food, medicine, and it is getting snowballing to the point it can now be called babysitting.
Or like you intend to do some limited activity, like going to parties together, but that person is known to call her acquaintances in the dead night and whine about her troubles, real or imagined. So, you get a forewarning, that you would have to BOTH walk her to the parties AND (unexpectedly) to wipe her night tears way too often.
Personally I derive it from how lists are described in Russian (not only in Russian, of course). Красный, желтый, синий И зелёный. Red, yellow, blue AND green.
In such phrases like these yours the inserted "И" implies some already existing list that would be yet extended. And the positioning of this "И" specifies which one of the few concurrent lists would get extended. Was it the list of activities with a certain persons, or the list of persons you engage in certain activity with or some other list.
So, the specific idea you want to convey is "her as well as him" - extending the list of persons for the specific activity. That positions "И" in front of "HER", thus "Тебе ещё и с ней нянчиться придётся".
Note, it can be worded without "ещё" - like "Тогда тебе и с ней придётся нянчиться". This would imply "It would not be that much of a surprise, and you probably already know it, but still you better consider it once again, for personally I would had not chosen this path".
