"У женщины есть молоко."
Translation:The woman has milk.
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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.
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The duo computer is not so far.. yet. It doesn't know about giving birth and its preliminaries :-))
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.
Do they mean the women has milk, like she bout it or................... (I'd rather not say on DuoLingo.)
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?
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The reason being is that milk alone is not a countable object unless it is specified that the milk is in gallons, cups, crates, etc.
When you write "The woman has a milk", the "a" would imply the use of a countable object as well, however in this sentence, there is no countable object, therefore, the use of the article "a" would be incorrect, and the sentence would simply just state that the woman has milk. It could mean she has 1 cup of milk or 200 gallons of milk.
The question this statement answers isn't "how much milk she has?" it's more so "What does she have?"
Hopefully this makes sense.