"Мама любит есть."
Translation:Mom likes to eat.
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Yes. But the context will reveal the proper meaning. I don't think anyone would say "я хочу есть" and mean "I want to be." Rather, they are hungry!
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Of course. And especially if we take into consideration that "I want to be" is "Я хочу быть" (not есть) in Russian.
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Есть means "to eat" AND happens to be used in the context of "у меня есть" as the third-person singular of "to be". I think of "у меня /есть/ что-нибудь" as "to me /there is/ something" or in better English, "I /have/ something."
But, you can tell by the context. The word есть in "Я хочу есть" and "Мама любит есть" is always going to mean "to eat." See Cute_Shark's comment above. And, "у меня есть ..." can always translate to "I have ..."
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I would amend this by saying "у меня есть что-нибудь" is more like "at me/at my possession there is something."
It's not uncommon in other languages for possession to be treated as a virtual location at which objects can exist rather than a virtual container such as in English where things are in your possession rather than at it.
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I still don't understand. I just wrote волк ест and it was correct, but Mama needs the soft sign for what reason?
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The same reason as in English. "The wolf eats" and "mom likes to eat". "To eat" is an infinitive. The same is here. Есть is an infinitive while ест is 3rd person singular form.
