"I do not have a sister."
Translation:У мене немає сестри.
June 1, 2015
7 Comments
I grew up speaking Ukrainian as a second-generation immigrant - growing up we used to say "Я не маю _" instead of "У мене немає ___". I am curious as to whether or not this is correct. Keep in mind my family immigrated from a rural area in Western Ukraine in the 1940s so this may be outdated, but is it incorrect? Is that passive way of declaring possession the only correct way?
June 1, 2015
I don't have any actual information on that, but "у мене є" is the same as Russian "у меня есть". The form "я имею" isn't very common in modern Russian. So I suppose that people influenced by Russian would rather use "у мене є"
June 4, 2015
How would you say "I do not have sisters." ? Just curious about the declination of sisters in this case.
April 29, 2016
