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- "У женщины есть молоко."
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nDroae: I once heard of the ["Got Milk?"] ads being run in Latin America, mistranslated to the Spanish phrase a nurse would ask a new mother - "Are you lactating?"
Dron007: By the way "У тебя есть молоко?" could be translated as "Are you lactating?" too.
Then practice the difference between и and ы. At least to me it's hard to pronounce it correctly, but the difference is there.
Why is it "the woman has milk" and not " the women have milk" when it is "Женщины" and not "женщина"?
Женщины is plural, but it is also singular genitive. You can see the difference when there is У in front of it. The word after should be in genitive. I assume the plural genitive is different. Someone up there suggested it is женщини. Best is probably if you look up a table with the different cases so you can remember them. Luckily I had latin in school. It works similarly.
Can someone please tell me the rule of using ь? Because in this sentence I have an impression that literally translated ест would sound the same as есть, the same goes with женщины, why not ex. Женщини?
Do they mean the women has milk, like she bout it or................... (I'd rather not say on DuoLingo.)
It's the genitive singular, which in this case (and various others) is spelled the same way as the nominative plural.
http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/nouns_genitive.php https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0#Declension
Possessing multiple objects wouldn't make the subject plural, though. :)
