"My brother is at mom's place."
Translation:Мой брат у мамы.
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Do you not add the translation of "place", or is that what the "у" is for? Please help, i am SOOOOOOOOOO Confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It would appear that is exactly how Y is being used here.
Y indicates possession. If context or the content leaves the thing possessed unspecified, the assumption is that it is someone's place
In English, if you say ...he is at Jim's ....the assumption, unless indicated otherwise, that he is at some place that is considered to be Jim's.
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Could this also mean simply "My brother is with Mom" = not referring to a place, but just being near or with Mom? For example, Mom decides to visit relatives in Siberia - Papa, maybe - and a friend wants to know if she went by herself. Could you say, «Мой брат у мамы» ?
NB: Used Windows 10 Mnemonic keyboard for Russian text and Alt+0171, Alt+0187 for double-arrow bracket Russian quotation marks.
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"У [genitive]" means "At someone's place".
"К" means "Towards" and it's used with the dative case.
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I thought I'd seen К used the way you're describing the use of У?
So "y" is used as "at" and "k" would be used for "over" like over there?.. I apologize if im way off here..
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You're right with "у", but "к" is for motion towards something. e.g. "Going to the store".
"Over there" would be "Вон там"
