"У тебя нет хлеба."

Translation: You do not have bread.

[DITR5]

Why is it "хлеба" and not "хлеб"?

[pekapa]

After нет one must use the genitive form of the object being negated and the genitive of хлеб is хлеба

[LeVinDuRosier]

so we have to say “у тебя есть хлеб” but “У тебя нет хлеба.” ?

[Peter435682]

Yes.

[FrankDy1]

If gentive is a possesive form, why does ectb not require the gentive form of the noun?

[Brage04]

Soviet officials talking to peasant farmers in russia 1941, colorized

[Martin135869]

У вас нет хлеба, товарищи. Вам надо есть торт.

[john.newbe]

Clunky......I'd say "you have no bread"

[Valentina108905]

Or " you don't have any bread".

[MiouMaou]

Or you don't have a bread... Not accepted

[_Maria_B._]

How dare you decieve me!! >:| ;j

[Neil712836]

Like, man, you have no bread. Heavy.

[AndrewGlas4]

I said you do not have the bread which was marked incorrect. Why?

[Katherine223628]

That sounds correct to me too.

[ChaseLockh2]

I do have bread, but its moldy.

[Survivor_FoX20]

Why doesnt it let me say, "You do not have the bread?"

[MFD06]

Why is "do not have" and not " have not" ?

[flootzavut]

"You have not bread" sounds mannered and unnatural to my native English ear. "You do have not bread" sounds plain wrong. I can't figure out offhand another way to put this that uses "have not", but the two most obvious ones just aren't good English.

[Dylannn_04]

I can't help but imagine someone waking up in the middle of the night to find a random person trying to make a sandwich, "you're out of bread..."