Can someone break this sentence down for me?

[Astrobrite]

こんばんわ！
I'm currently using Rosetta stone plus various text books since my first year college course has ended. As RS doesn't have translations, I'm having trouble understanding exactly what this sentence means:

女の子はのどがかわいます。

From the pictures I believe it to be "the girl is thirsty".

Can someone break it down for me?

どうも！

[rodostajin1691]

You are right!

女の子は = The girl
のどが= throat
かわいます= dry or thirsty

This is the only phrase I've ever heard to express being thirsty. However, the verb is usually the -te form because that is happening at the moment: 渇いている。

[QuackingShoe]

..but note that ha is a particle and ga is a particle. 'nodoga' isn't throat, but rather, 'nodo' is.

[Astrobrite]

Thanks guys. I expected ga to be a particle. It's more the verbs that I'm struggling with at the moment.

[Clienad]

If its Rosetta stone then it probably is the girl is thirsty
so I'm assuming it will be
女の子はのどが渇いています。

渇く「かわく」＝Thirsty
ています＝in the state of being

therefore in the state of being thirsty
In normal English "is thirsty."

for example
子供たちは飛んでいます。
the children are in the state of jumping
as opposed to
子供たちは飛ぶところです。
The children are about to jump.

[rodostajin1691]

One thing I learned is that your throat is only two things in Japanese 99.99% of the time, and the same in English I suppose. It's either thirst or sore.

1. thirsty　のどが渇く　
2. sore　のどがいったい

Since the choice is very limited、that should help to figure out the meaning.