"У тебя есть кошки?"

Translation: Do you have cats?

[TheDreadfulGuy]

Да, у меня есть кошки! И я их очень люблю!

[AlKuraal]

Google translate me 'cat' as кот and 'cats' as 'коты', why?

[grekhovki]

Google's translation is right.

«кот» - a singular noun

«коты» - a plural noun

[AlKuraal]

But duolingo says that 'cat' is кошка, what´s the difference?

[grekhovki]

«кот» — a singular masculine noun (=cat)

«кошка» — a singular feminine noun (=cat)

«коты» — a plural masculine noun (=cats)

«кошки» — a plural feminine noun (=cats)

[jamesath]

So the difference between the two is that one is a male cat and the other is literally female?

[grekhovki]

Yes, you are right

[JasonN748207]

I've read elsewhere that cats in general (of unknown gender) are koshki

[RomanBrajnikoff]

@JasonN748207

I've read elsewhere that cats in general (of unknown gender) are koshki

That's true.

[Alexander_2983]

Вопросительное предложение робот не верно произносит. Тот же робот на https://www.ivona.com/ с правильной вопросительной интонацией произносит данную фразу. Это уже далеко не первый лаг...

И да (сразу отвечу на предполагаемый вопрос) - на неправильное звучание уже неоднократно "технарям" указывал...

[bleepandbloop]

What if you wanted to say Ivan has something? Do names decline like normal nouns? And what about a masculine word ending in -a, does it decline like a fem word?

[keinemeinung]

Yes but there are nuances. Russian and I'd say most Slavic names will decline normally, but foreign names are different.
For instance, for men, if the name ends in a consonant or basically any vowel except и, then the name will decline like a normal word. For women, the name only declines if it has a traditionally Russian feminine ending (-а/-я). So, they'll say "У Барака Обамы" in regards to Barack Obama, but "У Хиллари Клинтон" for Clinton. Now if it's Bill Clinton, they'd say "У Билла Клинтона".

[hectormanu26]

У меня не кошкиб, у меня двe субаки

[grekhovki]

У меня не кошки, у меня две собаки

[keinemeinung]

У меня нет кошек >_>.

[pandapandax6]

I always think кошки means chicken

[ReeDhae11]

Sounds similar.. hhh

[BaconChomper]

What is the difference between тебе and тебя?

[Perchta.p]

In the case. тебя = genitive or accusative, тебе = dative.

[Memoryy721]

How do you ask "Do you have A cat" like, ONE cat?

У тебя есть кошка?

[keinemeinung]

Точно

[AlGarvey]

Yes. Or у тебя есть кот?

[yoozik]

Why is the singular form of кошка used here and not the plural?

[keinemeinung]

On the website version on the discussion page it displays the plural form (кошки).

[yoozik]

I actually had a misunderstanding, I thought the genitive form was being used here but the genitive is only used for negative possession, so this is the plural nominative. Thanks though!

[JonKurz]

When it prompts to speak a phrase to check pronunciation, I really wish they would show the translation of the phrase, and also include a mouse-over pronunciation for each word.

[giovannaMo662113]

I always write est this way way don’t accept now

[The9]

I like your cats

[Red-Green-Blue]

Тебя или Тебе? Я не знаю

[AlGarvey]

Тебя

[pspai]

" Do you have the cats" was marked wrong:(

[TtCH746030]

Почему катс без артикля?

[Kundoo]

Во множественном числе неопределённый артикль не используется. А определённый здесь не подходит.

[MarkAMurphy]

The stew is a little thin, do you have any cats?

[ph.QxmdPA]

Do u know pop it

[Santiagaoale]

i don't have a russian keyboard and I cant get one, when I write "U tebya yest' koshki" it doesn't work, and it's only the word yest' highlighted as wrong, I've tried yest, est, est' and more, how do I write "you have" russian latinized