"Mom has a loud voice."

Translation: У мамы громкий голос.

[jonathanrwn]

Why is "У мамы есть громкий голос." an incorrect solution? Is using "есть" only the way to say someone has something when that something is a physical object?

[deactivated user]

Using «есть» would emphasise the fact that a mom has voice, which should be pretty obvious anyway (unless sheʼs actually a mermaid or something).

See the comment here for a description of a similar sentence: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/11643883

[danielchall]

haha... unless she's a mermaid :D

Thanks for the explanation too of course :)

[jonathanrwn]

Thank you, that makes sense.

[curanmor]

Oy blin! Wait till you hear babushka when you don't eat her homemade borsch!

[MikeHender734164]

Why do I hear people say the word order in Russian doesnt matter. I see otherwise

[hannaBanana5094]

maybe better to full understanding: "word order in Russian" is not fixed, but organizes flexibly according to emphasis meaning. "doesn't matter" is not absolute chaos.

[Sadiefae]

My problem here is the sentece asked me to say "mom has a loud voice", not "mom's voice is loud". In english we say mom has a loud voice, even tho it should be implied... This makes no sense to me..

[almighty.dog]

But the Russian sentence is saying the same thing since "у мамы..." is the equivalent of "mom has..." Wouldn't "mom's voice is loud" be "голос мамы - громкий"?