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Russian Grammar

5. Possessive construction «У меня есть» (I have)

  • Introduction

  • 1. Nouns and Gender
  • 2. Personal Pronouns
  • 3. Present and Past Verb Tenses
  • 4. Capital Letters
  • 5. Possessive construction «У меня есть» (I have)
  • 6. Possessive Pronouns
  • 7. Reflexive possessive pronoun свой
  • 8. What Russian needs cases for
  • 9. Adjectives
  • 10. Negation
  • Introduction

  • 1. Nouns and Gender

  • 2. Personal Pronouns

  • 3. Present and Past Verb Tenses

  • 4. Capital Letters

  • 5. Possessive construction «У меня есть» (I have)

  • 6. Possessive Pronouns

  • 7. Reflexive possessive pronoun свой

  • 8. What Russian needs cases for

  • 9. Adjectives

  • 10. Negation

5. Possessive construction «У меня есть» (I have)

The idea of possession is very often expressed in Russian with the help of the construction У меня есть (I have):

у меня (есть)I have
у тебя (есть)you have
у него (есть)he has
у неё (есть)she has
у него (есть)it has
у нас (есть)we have
у вас, у Вас (есть)you (plural and formal) have
у них (есть)they have

Affirmative

Preposition у + pronoun in the Genitive case + есть+ noun in the Nominal case. The verb есть can be omitted:

У него есть машина.

He has a car.

У меня есть брат.

I have a brother.

У неё серые глаза.

She has grey eyes.

Negative

Preposition у + a pronoun in the Genitive case + нет + noun in the Genitive case:

У меня нет времени.

I have no time.

У нас нет денег.

We have no money.

У вас нет компьютера́.

You don’t have a computer.

Interrogative

Preposition у + a pronoun in the Genitive case + есть* + noun in the Nominal case. The verb есть can be omitted:

У тебя есть друзья?

Do you have friends?

У них есть билеты?

Do they have tickets?

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Beginning 6. Possessive Pronouns
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