"У тебя есть кошки?"
Translation:Do you have cats?
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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...
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Google's translation is right.
«кот» - a singular noun
«коты» - a plural noun
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«кот» — a singular masculine noun (=cat)
«кошка» — a singular feminine noun (=cat)
«коты» — a plural masculine noun (=cats)
«кошки» — a plural feminine noun (=cats)
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So the difference between the two is that one is a male cat and the other is literally female?
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I've read elsewhere that cats in general (of unknown gender) are koshki
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?
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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".
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On the website version on the discussion page it displays the plural form (кошки).
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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!