"У тебя есть планы?"

Translation: Do you have plans?

[DazKins]

Is "Do you have the plans?" correct? I thought it would be correct given that russian doesn't differentiate between indefinites and definites

[olimo]

Russian uses other means of differentiating definites and indefinites. Word order is a very common way to indicate whether you are talking of definite or indefinite things.

• Do you have plans? У тебя есть планы?
• Do you have the plans? Планы у тебя?

[Nik659150]

What happened to the есть ?

[934.9yeZ/p5HmAdO]

I believe that in the second question, existence is implied, so есть is not needed.

In the first question, the speaker does not know whether you have plans at all; hence есть is used.

A native speaker's input would help here.

[ezzat301670]

I don't understand these sentences can you guys help me

[ceflesch]

Is this a question related to the plans being "physical" (like in a project), or it is more like "plans do do something"? Can you use it to ask someone out for example?! How would you say - "DO you have plans for tonight?!"

[olimo]

У тебя есть какие-то планы на вечер?

[stijnboy01]

Is "Do you have any plans?" also correct?

[olimo]

This would be "У тебя есть какие-нибудь планы?" But the meaning is very close.

[millerdp7]

Why " какие-нибудь " and not "что-нибудь".

[olimo]

Что-нибудь = anything
Какой-нибудь = any (has to agree with the noun)

[Ali_Alghamdi]

what's the grammar of plural? some end with ы some и ???

[Vimamalila]

It depends on the gender and the ending of the word.

If it is masculine and ends in a consonant like стол (table) plural should be столы. If it ends with an й like музей (museum) plural should be музеи and if it ends with ь like словарь (dictionary) plural is словари.

If it is feminine and ends а like лампа (lamp), plural should be лампы. If it ends in я like наделя (week), plural is надели. If there is an и before the я like in история (history), the plural has two и being истории. Words that end with ь end in и as well, for example: ночь becomes ночи.

If the word is neuter and it ends with o like лицо (face), plural is лица. If it ends with е like море (sea), it becomes моря. If it ends with ие like здание (building), it becomes здания. And if it ends in мя like имя (Name), the plural is имена.

I hope this is helpful

[MaxReed6]

Where is the "Tips and Notes" section? I cant find it anywhere

[Valtteri_]

Have you tried to login Duolingo web site with a computer? In there are "Tips and tricks" sections available for the Russian lessons also - for some reason the mobile app doesn't give access to them. :/

[CaitKay]

What does the 'У' stand for?

[AndyPyrope]

"У (A) есть (B)." means "(B) belongs to (A)" - the 'у' goes hand in hand with 'есть'.

[LuWSd]

Да, Пинки. Тот же план у нас каждый вечер. Попробуйте захватить мир!

[northernalberta]

НАРФ!

[TheWolff06]

Ooh, I can get rejected in Russian now, too! Yayyy...

[Larva115814]

"u" should be accepted as "you", I lost too many hearts bcuz of that xd

[Rheinhardt11]

да, у нас есть пятилетний план

[HamishGold]

Helpful comment below from Olimo explaining why "Do you have the plans" is not correct

[Jesuisaucharbon]

ok