"Багаж у меня в комнате."

Translation: The luggage is in my room.

[ChloeElisabethC]

Could this mean "My baggage is in the room"? How do you clarify what у меня defines?

[EllaSharakanski]

No, "у меня" is always related to "me". Literal translation is "by me" but it can have different translations to English depending on the context: "in my..." ("у меня в..."), "at my place." ("у меня."), and sometimes even "I have" ("у меня красивое имя" - ("I have a nice name").

I only spoke Russian as a child so native speakers feel free to correct me or provide a more accurate explanation.

[EllaSharakanski]

Oh maybe you meant that "у меня" can refers to the luggage therefore it can be translated to "my luggage" as you said? In this case, my answer is still no but the explanation is different: "у мена в..." means "in my...".

If I wanted to say "My luggage is in the room" I would say "Мой багаж в комнате" or "У мена багаж в комнате" which puts more emphasize on this fact being true about me. Like if my parents are mad of my brother for leaving his luggage at the living room and I want to annoy him, I would prefer "У мена багаж в комнате" over "Мой багаж в комнате" which only emphasizes the word "room".

Well maybe you can say "Багаж у меня в комнате" like "Багаж у меня - в комнате" but being written without a dash and with no context of me listing where I tend to put stuff, this is most definitely not the first translation that comes to mind.

Again, I'm not exactly a native speaker so please correct me if I'm wrong.

[MariusAgm]

Would this be literally translated as "I have the luggage in my room"?

[ryandward]

"У + genitive" can carry the meaning of something mentioned or unmentioned that belongs to you. It is often a part of your body, your house, or your belongings.

For example: "Отец у сына." means "The father is at the son's."

So, "У меня в комнате" means "At mine, in the room."

Here меня probably refers to a house or something.

But "У меня в ухе" is literally "At mine, in the ear."

Clearly, at my house in the ear doesn't make sense, меня refers to your body.

[olimo]

Not exactly. У меня в комнате = in my room. We often say "у меня" instead of "мой".

[ZackP4]

So would «В моей комнате», as you mentioned in a post below, sound unnatural?

[olimo]

Both are fine.

[levisjeans9]

Why not мой in this sentence? Would that be correct as well?

[brostash]

It changes into the prepositional case due to the "в."

[Norrius]

No. I don't think you can adequatly translate this sentence into English keeping the Russian structure.

[JewishPolyglot]

It literally translates to "Baggage-by-me in room." You may be right

[Guenter212784]

In German you can say very similar to the Russian construction "Das Gepäck ist bei mir im Zimmer" (= "das Gepäck ist in meinem Zimmer")

[Chris258039]

"The luggage is with me in the room." may be a useful word-by-word translation.

[Samuel.bkn]

Why is it комнате rather than комната?

[Samuel.bkn]

I have the answer to my own question: KOMHATA is the place that the object BAGAZH is being within. The place that the object is being within is subject to the locative case, and the locative case for KOMHATA is KOMHATE.

[ZholG]

Although your answer is correct, remember that the Locative case in Russian evolved into Prepositional

[PiterPiola]

why not у меня багаж в комнате? why is багаж put at the beginning?

[Imagini]

I guess because that would mean, "My luggage is in the room.", and not, "The luggage is in my room."

[Rekty]

The luggage is with me in the room?

[olimo]

It is not necessarily "with me". It is just in my room (while I may be anywhere else).

[Leighfy7]

Can it also be said as "багож в мой комнате"

[olimo]

No, you have to agree the possessive with the noun in gender, number and case. В моей комнате - there are no other options.

[JonathanFllr]

But does "в моей комнате" sound natural?

[bage7]

In which case does комната work?

[daughterofAlbion]

Locative, because the baggage is stationary there. (Locative is formed in the same way as the prepositional case.)

[EvanGao8]

Could I get an explanation on the word order? Would this be, literally, 'The baggage is at my place (house) in the room"?

[METALNAVY]

And why not : Багаж в мой комнате

[Guenter212784]

I think Багаж в МОЕЙ комнате is accepted

[websmasha]

Good way to remember old words

[J80jj]

What is the exact translation of the sentence?

[piguy3]

See JewishPolyglot's comment above.

[LeVinDuRosier]

Шhy is it not «в мое́й комнате» ?

[piguy3]

A language can have more than one way to say something; see olimo's comments above.

[RWang2017]

Is у меня багаж в комнате correct with the same meaning?

[piguy3]

Not a native speaker, but I think you have to keep "у меня в комнате" together.

[Tim896832]

I am confused i put багаш and it was marked right and here in forum it has багаж, but prounounced voiceless. i thought ж is a voiced fricative ?

[EvanGao8]

It should be багаж. Duolingo does not pronounce everything well.

[Mylesfranklin]

My issue is it's "my" luggage, nowhere does it say that it's in MY room. As far as I can tell, it's A room or THE room. Am I missing something, like the e in the end of komhate?

[Kundoo]

"У меня в комнате" means "in my room".