"Мой брат любит и есть, и готовить."
Translation:My brother likes both eating and cooking.
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"both ... and ..." is translated with "и ..., и ...". You can also list more than two items. И хлеб, и мясо, и вода, и вино.
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I understand this - but I'm not at all sure how you would express this in English when there are more than two objects.
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Yeah, there isn't an exact equivalent.
Он любит и хлеб, и мясо, и вода, и вино.
He likes bread, and meat, and water, and wine.
He likes bread, meat, water, and wine.
I think doing that is the best option...?
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This construction is very similar to French: "Il aime et manger, et cuisiner". You can of course say "Il aime manger et cuisiner", but it often finds its uses when the two things you want to join are slightly opposite but still present. You want the non mutual-exclusion to shine.
In our example, he likes both "eating" and "cooking". One action consumes meals, the other produces them .. And yet, he likes to do both.
In many places the course is forgiving about мой / мои, and in general accepts и in place of й in words but this was not one of them, which made it more difficult trying to figure out what I had wrong when transcribing what I heard.
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That's because your typo made another valid word. If you use, for example, большои instead of большой, this would be considered a typo because there is no such word as "большои".
у меня есть = I have. Я ест = I eat, I am eating so why и есть for eating, surely и ест и готовить.
Sorry, Я ем=I eat. The verb Ectь means to eat, but I for one certainly get a bit confused with the similarity between the verb есть to eat and the Y (insert pronoun here) есть.
question from a non-native English speaker: Why isn't it correct to write "my brother likes both to eat and cook"
