"У России большая армия."

Translation: Russia has a large army.

[deactivated user]

Красная армия всех сильней!

[obscure-memes]

Is that a threat?

[Alexmalaho]

Nope. It would be Russia has a huge army. Lol.

[POCKOCMOC]

Sounds like propaganda.

[pistekjakub]

Is it correct to add there a word есть - 'У России есть большая армия.' ?

[Arphile]

If you want to focus on the fact Russia has an army, you would say 'У России есть армия'. However, it is well-known Russia has an army and the focus is not on the fact it exists, but on the adjective (here большая). In this case, leaving out есть is better

[Alexmalaho]

Yes. To me У Росси большая армия sounds more neutrally

[Zimba623761]

You don't need есть in all situations

[MarkoR2]

how would you say, that "a large army is in Russia"? (foreign one)

[Shady_arc]

Naturally, something like В России находится большая армия.

[MarkoR2]

thank you so much

[Ezequiel724903]

Said a german

[Christyanbf]

Couldn't that phrase mean "there's a large army in Russia", as well?

[Nata271489]

there's a large army in Russia = в России есть большая армия
Russia has a large army = у России есть большая армия (=Россия имеет большую армию)

[Zimba623761]

You don't need 'есть'. Besides, this is exactly as it is spoken in Russian in the lesson.

[Zimba623761]

The question asks one to write the Russian we hear, not translate what we hear

[Zimba623761]

You are not asking for the spoken Russian sentence to be translated into English! After three tries, I finally put the English translation down. Then it informs me that I incorrectly put in English. I'm now going to lose a whole lesson plus avoid this series on history

[Arphile]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FIpqPvL7E