diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0535f3a..ec72e40 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: maditr
 Type: Package
 Title: Fast Data Aggregation, Modification, and Filtering with Pipes and 'data.table'
-Version: 0.8.2
+Version: 0.8.3
 Maintainer: Gregory Demin <gdemin@gmail.com>
 Authors@R: person("Gregory", "Demin", email = "gdemin@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
 Depends: R (>= 3.3.0)
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ URL: https://github.com/gdemin/maditr
 BugReports: https://github.com/gdemin/maditr/issues
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Encoding: UTF-8
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 6f24b3b..18e1f74 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ S3method(query,data.frame)
 S3method(query_if,data.frame)
 S3method(rollup,data.frame)
 S3method(rows,data.frame)
+S3method(rows,etable)
 S3method(sort_by,data.frame)
 S3method(take,data.frame)
 S3method(take_all,data.frame)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c5d6376..e251b7e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+0.8.3 (2022-04-02)
+================
+* now 'rows' respects 'etable' class
+
 0.8.2 (2021-05-25)
 ================
 * fix serious bug with '%to%' in the multiassignment expression in the 'let'
diff --git a/R/columns.R b/R/columns.R
index ce78cb8..11a5fa2 100644
--- a/R/columns.R
+++ b/R/columns.R
@@ -352,18 +352,28 @@ rows.data.frame = function(data, ...){
         stop(sprintf("'rows': it seems you use '=' instead of '==': %s.", curr_names))
     }
 
-
+    parent_frame = parent.frame()
+    # if data is expression we want to calculate it only once
+    data = force(data)
     # NULL is just a placeholder
     expr = substitute(
         NULL[Reduce(f = '&', list(...)),]
     )
-    parent_frame = parent.frame()
-    # if data is expression we want to calculate it only once
-    data = force(data)
     eval_in_parent_frame(data, expr, frame = parent_frame)
 
 }
 
+#' @export
+rows.etable = function(data, ...){
+    data_class = class(data)
+    data = as.data.table(data)
+    res = eval.parent(
+        substitute(maditr::rows(data, ...))
+    )
+    setDF(res)
+    class(res) = data_class
+    res
+}
 
 
 
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/test_dplyr_verbs.R b/inst/tinytest/test_dplyr_verbs.R
index 54d3e6c..b6019e8 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/test_dplyr_verbs.R
+++ b/inst/tinytest/test_dplyr_verbs.R
@@ -107,6 +107,18 @@ expect_identical(
     rows(mtcars, rowSums(vs %to% am)>0),
     dt_mt[vs>0 | am>0, ]
 )
+
+etab = data.frame(a = 1:2, b = 3:4)
+class(etab) = c("etable", class(etab))
+res = etab[2,, drop = FALSE]
+rownames(res) = NULL
+expect_equal(res, rows(etab, 2))
+
+etab = data.frame(a = 1:2, b = 3:4)
+class(etab) = c("etable", class(etab))
+res = etab[1,, drop = FALSE]
+rownames(res) = NULL
+expect_equal(res, rows(etab, b<4))
 ##########################
 
 cat("\nContext:", "dt_arrange", "\n")