"У меня есть молоко."
Translation:I have milk.
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What is the purpose of есть in this sentence? If I remember correctly it means "to eat" and the simplest way of saying "I have milk" is "У меня молоко".
This is a special construction to indicate possession. "U menya est' moloko" would literally translate to: To me (U menya) there is (est') milk (moloko). "Est'" in this case means "to be". The verb can also mean "to eat". You are right about the simplification. Remember, in Russian, the verb "to be" is not necessary in the present tense. Hence, the omission is also correct. ;)
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Russian verb 'to eat' is 'есть'. But there's a different word, completely unrelated, which reads and pronounced exactly the same way - 'есть'. And this word means 'to be'. Yeah, inconvenience, but from the context you usually can tell which one have been used.
It's есть, not ест, and if I'm not mistaken "У меня есть" is used for tangible things (Ex: I have a cat = У меня есть кот), while "У меня" is used for abstract things (Ex: I've got a class today = Сегодня у меня занятия)
now someone is saying it means to to have.... so is it to be or to have the guy above translated it as to be or there is. it's all really confusing. to be and to have are 2 totally different verbs.
Welcome to linguistics, where things usually are different from you mother tongue and you can't directly translate phrases word-by-word
Yea, can anyone verify this please. Do any Russians say like that or we need "есть"
Now I see why nobody in Russia understood "я е́м молоко". This is what I get for trying to learn a language from the dictionary.
In that case it would be Я употребляю молоко. But in no way Я ем молоко.
languages arent direct translations of eachother, we speak in context and russians have different context for different scenarios and things.
They explain it in Tips & notes. The usage is "У _ есть " = "By _ there is an ". So a direct translation would be "By me there is milk".
W H A T. The whole time there were tips and hints on the Duolingo website? Ive only done Spanish and Russian, I just assumed there weren't any for Russian /facepalm XD
It's on the duolingo website when you click on a lesson it gives you the option to see Tips & Notes. Sadly it's not on the android version.
I really like this Russian structure to say "I have ...", it sounds kinda like a very important thing to say. In Spanish it's just one puny word: "Tengo" (plus the pronoun before this if you must include it, but we usually don't, since the verb already tells you which pronoun you're using.
What's wrong with "I have the milk"? Let's say, each person in a group is carrying something, but they are afraid they forgot the milk. Our speaker has it. Wouldn't he or she say У меня есть молоко and in such a conext wouldn't that mean, "I have the milk"?
That's ok.....duolingo is good but lacks context.....articles are not used in Russian. So the milk or milk or even a milk are all possible
I have some milk will be У меня есть немного молока, but we don't need to make rigid transfer from one language to another as they have different structure and rules. Non -definite amount of milk in Russian is just молоко without any complements. So your offer is OK
Wouldn't it be, "У меня есть молока", since (from what I understood) "some" is translated by using the genitive of the uncountable noun you're talking about?
Only if you'd say У меня есть немного молока. Otherwise У меня есть молоко.
I have all the milk now, infinite milk, enough milk to become... THE MILKMAN.
So, it is similar to the greek and latin dative of possession, "mihi est lac", literally: "there is milk to/for me".
I typed i have the milk, and was not accepted by Duolingo. Why is that?
"У" is part of the construction used to express possession, and it's not related to "I" in any way. The sentence literally means "By (у) me (меня) is (есть) milk (молоко)". Hope this helps.
Do we have to mention меня есть together in a sentence where we want to say "i have something" ?
So what if I answer, 'I have.' to a question, 'Do you have X?' Can I use меня есть?
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Correct answer would be 'у меня есть', but it's very specific. You can use this to emphasize the possession, like 'I do have a thing'. Overwhise the answer should be just 'да' or 'да, есть'.
'меня есть' without the preposition 'у' literally translates as 'to eat me', which is probably not what you're going for.
Where did they find this Russian speaker, in the deep woods of Ukraine? His pronunciation is awful.
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"Есть" can generally mean two things.
- "Есть" - infinitive of the verb meaning 'to eat'. "Ест" is a masculine present tense form of the verb "есть".
- "Есть" - a form of a verb "быть" ('to be'). This form called 'realis mood', in case you want to make your own research, but unless you're really interested in linguistics I would advice against it. What you need to know is that "есть" might have several meanings depending on the context: to eat, to be, to have. It might look confusing at first, but in practice it's always quite obvious.
I have milk! Is correct.....why this app is telling me that I should use "I have SOME milk"
can someone please explain what is the meaning of the word есть? and when is it used?
Есть (pres 3 sg from Быть) = is at present, is at hand, is in possession... Here it's a part of syntactical model: У + Gen. of Possessor + [Быть] + Nom. of Object
Milk is a liquid and therefore not (normally) a countable object. (The only possible scenario where "I have a milk" could make sense would be if we were discussing TYPES of milk: e.g. "Do you stock goats' milk?" "No, I have a milk, but it is from sheep.")
Because "меня" is the genitive form of the pronoun "Я", which is "I" in English
This question is quite a nonsence. You may ask Откуда у тебя молоко? but not Почему у тебя есть молоко? The only reasonable answer to your question is Потому что гладиолус. But don't take it serious.
I thought "у меня есть" meant "do you have?" How do I tell the difference?
I dont understand what does "у" have to do in here, what does "у" represents
У меня = I have. Look at this like an idiome. There's a lot of languages that have no equivalent to verb Have. Russian has verb 'Иметь', but it is of no (or little) use in possessive relations. We use "У + genitive of possessor" instead. Hope this helps.
Wondering why I keep getting the speaking part wrong. Seriously, I'm saying it just like thr audio.
Why not I have a milk or without "a" and its translated "I have some milk"
Can anyone suggest me a keyboard where i can change between languages like from "the one im using" to russian/ukrainan
How do i know with У _ есть if it is question, like do you have milk or not a question like, You have milk
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You'll know it from the intonation or question mark if it's in writing. Otherwise the construction is the same: У него есть молоко. (statement) У него есть молоко? (question) Intonation difference between a question and a statement is quite dramatic in Russian, you should have no problem after some practice.
how do pronounce есть with English letters?? I've tried yest, which is what I hear, and what google translate says, but I still get answers wrong that include typing in есть
The word "the" in English makes a big difference. "I'm hungry, do you have anything?" "Yes, I have milk." That is milk in general. "Oh we milked the new cow. Good milk, you know?" "Yes, I have the milk." This is the milk from that new cow.
I understand the difference that the word "the" makes. But your explanation relies on the fact that the difference it makes is context bound. In this case, there isn't any context. Technically speaking wouldn't and shouldn't my answer still be correct?
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The original sentence "У меня есть молоко" has a structure that strongly suggest that the speaker refer to milk in general, not some specific instance of milk. Otherwise the speaker would either put some adjective ("это", "твоё", "машкино", etc.) or at least move "молоко" to be the first word in the sentence and say "Молоко у меня". To say "У меня есть молоко" while referring to some particular instance of milk is incorrect.
Exactly the same difference between any two different letters in any language of any kind in any form
Can someone explain me difference between В and У, like in >I am в кафе< and >у меняI am у кафе
Roughly в means in and у means near, next to, by. However, у in this sentence means with: у меня есть молоко "there is milk with me", or "milk exists with me", then correct way to say is "I have milk." Я в бутылке молока "I'm in the bottle of milk." It means I'm drowning in the milk inside the bottle.
The sentence structure is confusing to absorb, imagine if I didn't have the wors suggestions to compose the sentence