"Он мой брат."

Translation: He is my brother.

[Mr.Dillinger]

I guess it makes sense now why I've always called my brother a brat sometimes

[Larisa_L]

ha-ha, but you should decide if it was always or sometimes, after all :))))

[Olly_1052]

Лариса, прошу Вас обратить внимание. В английском языке порядок слов в предложении фиксированный. Например, He is.... - утверждение, Is He.....? - вопрос. В русском, в отличие от английского, порядок слов не фиксирован, смысл предложения определяется только ЗНАКАМИ препинания (письменно) и ИНТОНАЦИЕЙ (устно). В курсе "с английского на русский" в звуковых упражнениях большинство английских утвердительных фраз на русском звучат как вопросы (в данном примере: "Он мой брат?" :))).

[FreeMediaKids]

That is exactly why I came to the discussions upon reading брат.

[EmmaGreen550802]

Same here :) I would call this justice.

[wissdelrey]

Hahahahhahahaha

[Jackie705009]

Lol!

[AnneliseMarie0]

What is the difference between "мой" and "моя"? When should I use each? Thank you!

[Larisa_L]

мой - with masculine nouns, моя - with feminine nouns.

[Alma_Negra]

My mind has exploded

[AnneliseMarie0]

Thank you!

[MohammedHa963677]

May good bless you

[Demutrudu]

Good or God?

[AlexWinste1]

So are there just no verbs in Russian? What serves as the verb in this sentence? Спасибо!

[Larisa_L]

obviously there are plenty of verbs in Russian, here we have present simple of the verb to be - есть - and it is normally omitted in Russian, but it is implied, which you can see in Past and Future tenses. Он был моим братом - He was my brother. Он будет моим братом - He will be my brother.

[Alex-Winstead]

Thanks for the examples, but can you tell me the verb in this sentence? From direct translation as far as I can tell there is He my brother.

[Larisa_L]

As I said, the verb is быть (present tense form есть), but it is omitted. It is only implied there. You cannot say Он есть мой брат.

[Ga_Jin]

He might be annoying but he's my "brat".

[OmarAssadi]

Данила!

[Dmitry861437]

Ахах хорош, ты сделал мой день:D

[ItalianJay]

He ain't heavy

[ledainle]

why isnt "bro" accepted? isn't the full one "bratishka"?

[Larisa_L]

No, the standard one is брат - brother, and браток, братишка and so on would be more like bro, we're not going to add all possible slang words to the translations.

[MaxFromUkraine]

Ooo. The word "bratishka" is a big and specifical meme nowadays :)

[Dmitry861437]

Ahah yeah, bratishka is a meme word

[_Felipe_Ricardo_]

Does сестра and брат comes from English? lol
They sound so similar...

[Cernael]

More likely that both go back to common, Indo-European roots.

[madafakasupreme]

What is the difference between мой, мои, моя, etc?

[shrikrishna1]

Мой for masculine nouns, моя for feminine nouns

[NimaKarimi1]

Can we use моя??

[Larisa_L]

no, brother is masculine, and моя is feminine

[floof_cuz_]

Why is it "он мой брат" but not "он -- мой брат"?

[Corbillard]

I would like to know too...

[Winston298006]

Even in the U.S., some people say "brot" meaning "bro," "dude," etc.

[MYoshua]

What's the difference between the letters в and б? I could never memorize when to use each

[Nikolay_Moscow]

These are different sounds and letters. "Б/б" = "B/b". "В/в" = "V/v". You should remember the words with these letters directly.

[vis555348]

Whats with моё, моу and мои?

[simone825389]

I'm not native speaker russian but i know that моё is for neutral nouns like моё море (my sea) мои is used for the plural if i'm wrong someon correct me please

[Corbillard]

I heard "Оно" as the first word and got it right. When do you use "Он" or "Оно" ? Is it somehow for pronunciation ?

[Pabblo701663]

он не тяжелый, он мой брат...

[cdr200]

So I put Ун instead of Он for 'he is' and it said I got it right, why is that?

[SukhenduDa]

Why can't we use 'него' instead of 'он' here?

[Nikolay_Moscow]

Он - he (nominative case). Него - him (genitive case). For example: I'm going without him - я иду без него.

[SukhenduDa]

Thanks a lot bro

[Enkrade]

What is the difference between мои, мой, и моя