У меня есть VS У меня | Russian Language

[@sabakhelashvili6360]

Believe it or not, your channel is the most useful

[@slottraducoesbr2929]

I agree. 'cause i can traing my english and my russian hahaha

[@stephanieperng6461]

Yesssss

[@maximiliandoddclivedodd1087]

it's not

[@fiki_fire]

Could'nt agree more

[@greatestytcommentator]

@@maximiliandoddclivedodd1087 Oh.. which IS?

[@LiveRussian]

Fedor, this is just amazing how you managed to explain the difference between these two things. You know, there are two sentences: у меня есть ручка /I have a pen and ручка у меня / I have the pen. It ideally fits your logic about awareness of the existence!!!! У меня есть ручка - people have no idea that you have a pen. And ручка у меня - you're probably sitting in a room and someone asked you if you have the pen that was on the table a second ago. Bravo!

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Thank you:)

[@ratio123456]

The difference in meaning (I have A pen vs. THE pen) is not due to the presence of the word ЕСТЬ, but to the order of words. The new\actual information tends to be at the end of sentences, so by saying "ручка у меня" we mean "the pen (you know which one) is in my possession". In "у меня простуда" vs. "простуда у меня" there is the same difference in meaning (we state WHAT I have vs. WHO has a cold), but no "есть" in either sentence.

[@Froi97Freixo]

@@ratio123456 I agree with you, the existence of the thing you have is the key here, as Fedor explains in the video

[@mordekaihorowitz]

Awesome! I can just imagine that kind of conversation: У тебя есть телефон? У меня _сломался_ телефон.

[@alternosfericul6058]

isn't it easyer to just say мой телефон сломался?

[@mordekaihorowitz]

@@alternosfericul6058 Oops I meant to say сломанный телефон. My bad

[@ivanvlasov8308]

@@mordekaihorowitz You used "сломался" absolutely right way! "Сломанный" in this case should appear with "есть" as well

[@alexview3971]

У меня сломался телефон and мой телефон сломался are kinda the same. I tried hard to differentiate them but they are almost identical. But I see a little difference anyway and here it is: The latter sentence suggest that I own the phone(and it's broken), and the the former sentence suggest that the phone in my possession (and it's broken) but not necessarily means that I own this phone. It could be somebody else's phone. You got it?

[@alexview3971]

So if you had broken somebody else's phone when you had it then you could say "У меня сломался телефон"

[@user-fu4cz6ic9n]

I literally struggled with this at school last week. Thank you! 😊

[@CarminaKD]

Я несколько лет уже изучаю русский язык, мой уровень языка - Б2, я использовала много разных курсов, но я никогда не узнала нюансы о которых в говорите. Спасибо большое!

[@avq5]

You have a great talent for teaching. The way you repeat things in order to make them clear is extremely effective.

[@jeffmeyer9319]

Thank-you for reminding me that language rules are not logical, they just are!

[@anhhuynh8656]

Спасибо за это интересное видео, Федор.

[@MichalNowak1990]

Well, that channel is exactly what I was looking for. Great content, thanks!

[@mdwgtn]

This channel is so useful, as a casual student who rarely gets a chance to be corrected by a native speaker, these are clarifications I haven't known I needed for decades...

[@Malinverni]

Mate, I found out about your channel this week when I was struggling to understand the diference between an perfective and an unperfective verb. Thanks to you I could understand that and now also this other difference. My only words for you are Большое спасибо! (I am an italian/brazilian italian teacher, by the way).

[@cluckygirl792]

Fedor, you are very good at explaining such points in an easy to understand way. I’m a native English person and am learning with another teacher successfully so I’m sorry that I do not feel I want to undertake your courses because, as you know, one course is enough (it’s oh-so-easy to take on too many different learning resources which is counter productive to learning). However, I can honestly say that of all the various Russian videos that one can access in You Tube to help one learn, yours are one of the very few that are very digestible and not off-putting. So you are my “go to” when I want to do some additional learning to supplement my course. This is so necessary when one is learning Russian: to gather various resources to reinforce the learning one does. Спасибо Федор.

[@jeffreyd508]

No one else could really explain this well to me. Great explanation!

[@abssyntho]

I have never understood that until now. Great explanation!

[@markmarkyyy5632]

Short and sweet. Clear and concise! Great lesson; keep up the good work!!!

[@chrisdollesin]

Привет и спасибо! I've just started learning Russian and your videos and Instagram are really helpful and accessible! Thanks a bunch!

[@K15A6]

Аfter 5 years, what is your Russian level now?

[@ratio123456]

I guess the easiest explanation would be not to use ЕСТЬ 1) if you can translate the sentence using MY: У МЕНЯ сломался телефон (MY phone is broken), У МЕНЯ длинные ноги (MY legs are long). While У МЕНЯ ЕСТЬ ноги\телефон и т.д., can only be translated using I HAVE: I have legs/a phone. and 2) when HAVE doesn't mean POSSESS, as in "I have a cold" (У МЕНЯ простуда) or "I'm having a test tomorrow" (У МЕНЯ завтра тест).

[@Barbarossa97]

why not use the the possessive "Moi" (no kyrillic here)? Why "U menya" instead of "moi" in the meaning of MY?

[@poseidon7359]

@@Barbarossa97 ^^^ tell me when you figure it out

[@АлександрГумбольдт-р6ю]

@@Barbarossa97 either "мой телефон сломался" or "у меня сломался телефон" is correct. The former is what I would use if I was writing a story. The later sounds more natural in a casual conversation.

[@АлександрГумбольдт-р6ю]

@@poseidon7359 partially answered

[@poseidon7359]

@@АлександрГумбольдт-р6ю Я понимаю сейчас. Большое спасибо!

[@katjaamyx2922]

This is excellent. I feel much more confident about when to use у меня есть or у меня. Knowing that one is more like "I have" and the other is more like "my" (or "mine") will really help me remember this information.

[@tamarpelkinson3518]

Ohhh spasibo Fedor! This is really awesome! I love your videos 😀

[@BRYANTERMULOOFFICAL]

followed you more than months.. lol thanks teacher fedor

[@connyvlot6576]

As always, a pleasure to watch your clear and concise lesson.

[@ppoint432]

I didn't even know about this difference. Thanks.

[@cassandraelliot7878]

You are an excellent teacher. I learn a lot from you. All I can do is these small lessons. Thanks.

[@I.JG7.Frenchie]

Спасибо мой брат, я Французский, I learn russian for 2 weeks, and I love this language, I hope that my words were right lol

[@Asma-ep9bx]

In one video, the tutor said that (есть) can be removed and it’s ok, nothing will change in the sentence!!! But ur explanation says the opposite, it makes difference.. thanks a lot

[@TachyBunker]

How's it going with the russian?

[@raelenelehmann9103]

Thank you so much for your easy to follow explantions - and very practical. Exactly what I have been searching the web for. Спасибо большое!

[@marnieschultz5664]

Ясное объяснение. Огромное спасибо!

[@Yusuf1187]

It instantly makes sense when you look at what the sentences mean literally, word for word. There is a phone at me. (есть) The phone at me broke. (сломаться)

[@KaySeminomadic]

This was very helpful. I was wondering about this. Thanks!

[@drviveklathwal]

This is just Pure Great work !! The effort you are putting in to explain the concept.. Woow.. Followed Instagram. 🤓

[@BernOffThatPancresta]

Keep going with the videos. These are super helpful , thank you !

[@maraj8215]

Thank you very much for this video!!! now I understand why sometimes I come across the phrase "у меня" without the "есть"!!!

[@MetallicAddict15]

To summarize this video: 1) "I have" + only a noun --> "У меня *есть* ". For example: "I have a phone." = "У меня есть телефон." EXCEPTION: Sickness. "I have the flu." = "У меня грипп." 2) "I have" + adjective + noun --> "У меня". For example: "I have a broken phone." = "У меня сломанный телефон." 3) "My [noun]" + verb --> "У меня". For example: "My phone has broken." = "У меня сломался телефон."

[@ani4100]

Thank you for answering my question and trying to explain it, Fedor! I appreciate it. :) So, a sentence like "У меня (есть) две возможности" has two possible versions, but both have a slightly different emphasis in their meaning.

[@carlasmith9760]

I'm passing your info on to some others in my class. I don't know how you make this so simple. I will keep returning and will find you on IG. Thanks so much - keep up the good work.

[@cadelier5100]

Wow! I have asked people why and they could never tell me! That was great! Truly, you are great at explaining things! Thank you so much, much appreciated!

[@ЭдуардЛаншин]

in general , Russian constuction - У+Genetive case - expresses idea of possesing of something , or belonging to something - either it could express possesing straitly - i have a telephone у меня есть телефон , a cat has four paws У кошки четыре лапы ( verb eсть in this construction could skipp very often , it would be wierd to hear - у кошки есть четыре лапы), or not so directly -почему ваша собака опять У МЕНЯ в саду ? why is your dog again in my garden , Можно я у тебя переночую - could i hoste in your place tonight ? here У меня , у тебя means that some place belongs to somebody. The same with examples in this video , I have my telephone broken , У меня shows at first that it is my telephone which is broken , i have it . I would borrow your telehpone and it would get broken , i rather said Твой телефон сломался , but never У тебя сломался телефон или у меня сломался твой телефон , just because i am not owner of that telephone. У нас в городе много деревянных домов - У нас - i belong to that city since i live here - eсть много деревянных домов or много деревянных домов - work bouth У моей жены сегодня день рождения my wife has an event today ( Birthday) so although i rate high this chanal i wouldn't oppose У меня есть to у меня

[@MichaelCZUSA]

Seven year old video, but damn Fedor, YOU ARE GOOD! Thank you!

[@killerfrost8922]

Thanks, searched a lot but this was the only good explaination that i found

[@Someone98982]

"Sometimes the evolution is illogical" Yeah mate I felt that as a Damask trying to pronounce "ы" lmao.

[@catemef6963]

What I love about this lesson is that it helps me connect to one of my favorite Russian songs. I don't have Cyrillic letters on this keyboard, but the song is Eto svo by DDT (old song from 1994). I think this song is also one of the reasons why I want to learn Russian. the Russmus website has the Russian lyrics, Russian transliterated, English translation plus guitar tablature. If you haven't checked out this website you might find something interesting there. BTW, I find it ironic that I can access any alphabet I want on my ancient defunct but web usable iPhone, but cannot from my MacBook (maybe I just don't know how).

[@Drchangerx]

It seems that У меня есть deals with the existence of something, as you said, and that У меня addresses the "state" of things that exist. Feeling ill, having big legs, or having grey eyes all address the state of something. Thanks for that lesson. I really helped me see the difference.

[@スペース-o2h]

Examples for anyone wondering... У меня есть шоколад(I have chocolate) У меня всё хорошо(I'm all good) These are the 2 I thought of and figured I would share :D

[@asummerwwy]

Very clear and useful. Thank you very much for explaining so well!

[@njuvanrui2951]

It is also worthy to mention, the occurrence of the two expressions depends also largely on contexts, whether the sentence itself is out-of-blue, narrative, descriptive, interrogative, imperative, figurative, interjective or respondive, would all come to affect the speaker which expression to choose to use, and if the sentence itself is a question or an answer, then it will again depends on its topic-focus structure.

[@erick.gudino]

A big thank you from Mèxico!

[@randycorliss4262]

I love how your explanations are very understandable and I followed your Instagram

[@BeFluentinRussian]

:)

[@randycorliss4262]

I may be struggling tremendously with learning the Russian, but I refuse to give up. I love the language, the culture and the people.

[@mirkocutura9882]

you are the best brat!

[@valkonrad]

Очень приятно смотреть вас, слушать вас, чтобы от вас столько легко учить. спасибо большое за то, вы решили эту давн проблему;-)

[@BeFluentinRussian]

*от вас столько легко учить Столько is used with quantity, you should use ТАК in that sentence.* Спасибо большое!

[@rosako]

Super awesome man! Many thanks! I couldn't understand this and I just did in 5 min!

[@Mars-Sello]

Thanks Fedor for created this video. it is true, i am really confused between у меня есть and у меня. this is very helpful !

[@pauline2562]

Very great explanation.. i already studied about it but your explanation is soooo good! Thanks to you..☺️

[@kreavill]

i love how angry you sound it makes the video 10x better!

[@26impulse26]

Well, I finally grasp the gist of the difference between these two forms of phrase. Thanks alot.

[@dinigratia3772]

Ok. I found this channel and it just made my day!!!! *Not to be so dramatic.

[@JeanCarlosRodriguez]

Great! I finally understood. Thanks a lot Fedor for the explanation. Just in case the right english sentence of the eyes is: I have grey eyes)

[@markschwenzy999]

thanks mate finally I've go the channel that I've been looking for

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Thank you! I won't disappoint you.

[@anEyePhil]

Brilliant! Very clear and rational.

[@cesarreyesuribe4713]

Dude, your videos are the best

[@connyvlot6576]

I agree with your last comment: language is a reflection or expression of the human mind and therefore equally (il)logical! ;)

[@lanerussell7958]

И я говорю: "Вот! У меня нет руки!" И люди спрашивают меня, "Что такое руки?"

[@jmal82]

This is a great video -- but I'm stuck on a Russian wearing a HU T-shirt and I really need the story of how you came to rock the blue and white.

[@4Gamers00]

I have heard that, if you say "У меня есть ноги" for example, it could also imply that you literally have legs. Like you put legs from people on your shelf or something like that. A mistake you should probably try to avoid while being in russia and talking to the police.

[@Katya_Lastochka]

Or you can say it sarcastically. Like if someone asks you if you need a ride somewhere close, you can say "У меня есть ноги", to remind them that you still have legs and can walk there yourself.

[@xygnusx5067]

Thank you. This has giving me so much grief.

[@edwarda.casimiro9808]

Я понимал твой урок. Спасибо!

[@ajhhc]

Edward A. Casimiro я тоже понимал его, это был отличный урок!

[@ratio123456]

Понимал is imperfective, so it means "used to understand" or "was understanding" at a certain time or moment. What you need in this sentence is the perfective Понял, which means "have understood" (a completed action). I hope it wasn't rude to correct without you asking me to. ;)

[@nzoththecorruptor9755]

A very typical mistake with incorrect aspect :D

[@pablod.escribano1280]

@@ratio123456 Great explanation, thanks! What if, instead, I say: я понимаю твой урок. Is it correct? Or we need a perfective here? Спасибо !

[@ratio123456]

@@pablod.escribano1280 That would be present tense (I understand, I'm understanding). If you've already watched the video and are giving feedback, "я понял" (past tense) would be more logical.

[@iainmackenzie6379]

очень спасибо федор!

[@gezma12]

You are a cool teacher, thanks for helping me.

[@dewantidadana712]

I love your explanation!

[@Jortyunofficial]

These videos are very helpful man

[@captainredan5339]

5:18 in Spanish грипп literally translates to Gripa, so грипп and gripa sound the same

[@gunsandcoffeeMX]

Pensé lo mismo

[@simongraham7343]

Thanks! This is very helpful!

[@JCC545454]

Fedor you do a great job explaining Abstract Russian concepts to English speakers. Could you do a video on the word «Получается»? I feel this word is constantly thrown around in every sentence and has multiple colloquial uses, but. It’s tough to nail them all down.

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Just added that to my idea list!

[@rachabelk3426]

like the way how you explain ... brilliant teacher

[@Tuabogangsterdeconfianza]

Learn Russian is my favorite leisure activity 🙏🥰

[@silverbeaver7108]

Thank you so much, that's so useful! I have a question though, when do you know if you should use 'у меня сломался телефон' or 'мой сломался телефон' ? Sorry if this is a stupid question but it sounds to me like у меня = мой in this case..

[@cjstand1140]

У меня when you're telling someone that your phone is broken. Мой when you're just referring to the broken phone itself. Think "My phone is broken" vs "my broken phone is on the table".

[@rodgeryoung3508]

Мой телефон сломался 😠 мой сломался телефон так обычно не говорят .

[@martynicole3337]

Спасибо 🙏🏼

[@joespidi]

Such a great teacher 👌

[@anEyePhil]

You warn us that sometimes Russian is not logical! English is worse, for example I can spell "Fish" as "Ghoti". why? gh from "enough" (ф), o from "women" (и), and ti from "nation" (ш).

[@muhammadnurulyatim9495]

good job bro, even my teacher dont teach me as detail as that

[@greatestytcommentator]

As far as I know, at the moment. The same word is used for Arms and Hands and Legs and Feets!

[@greatestytcommentator]

@`Abdul-Hādi at-Turāni Brilliant Examples.. Thanks so much. Quite humurous to me!

[@nainka11]

Tough going for you this time...........But, well done. You got there in the end....Sometimes the most basic and obvious things can be the most difficult to explain...........A bit like the sun does not go round the earth...describing the colour blue to a blind person or even........North, East, West and South spells News..Maybe even P.O.S.H. stands for Port OUT Starboard HOME.

[@autumnbehon942]

Very helpful! Спасибо!

[@charlottefowler4890]

Есть means have. Without means my or mine.

[@jennasjams]

Понимаю! 🙂💚🌼

[@ekaterinakorkishko503]

мне нравиться твой акцент, ты молодец))) единственно шум мне мешает слушать

[@Mrsinaryan]

Fedor, you are great on teaching, I think you may need to think about it to see, if you may numbered you videos for us 1, 2, 3 .... in orders to follow your direction of learning.

[@TheNixspace]

i've read many text in russian. but i still cannot read quickly like when i read in english. T.T

[@evakranjcevic5429]

Emilia Michalek Explained perfectly

[@golarac6433]

U menya yest sounds like "at me exists", almost like saying i have this thing at home, at my place, something like that. At least to me (polish). We have word for have (ja mam telefon) so this is kind of strange, but aounds familiar if i wanted to say that something is at my house ( u mnie w domu jest telefon)

[@askarufus7939]

Can you make a video about the difference in pronounciation between ест and есть?It seems like english native speakers dont have this problem but im polish and both sound to me like jeść (to eat) not jest (is). So у меня есть мама sounds to me "at my place eat mom" :p

[@mostafahoseini8827]

Спасибо за приятное объяснение

[@mauriciovandrade]

To sumarize when you have only a substantive У меня есть and when you have some adjective + substantive you use У меня.

[@jacmorales5314]

Wonderful explanation.!!!

[@njuvanrui2951]

The language evolution is always and of course logical, provided it evolves from the older version of that very same language. But here in the actual world, language always evolves from a different language, Old English is a complete foreign language to English, and Old Slavic languages are foreign to Russian, Old Bashkir could possibly be not Turkic but Uralic, while Old Hungarian could possibly be not Uralic but Turkic, and some Serbs do think Old Albanian is not even Indo-European, while some Albanians think Old Albanian is the Proto-Indo-European. But some languages are actually evolved from the very same language they were, which, sadly to observe, does not make them easier to learn...

[@MontyCarlossal]

Very useful - thank you

[@cecb3451]

Спасибо за видео!

[@4utummm]

Thank you, for helping my journey to becoming a good Russian speaker

[@Vladdani2008]

Great lesson!

[@zin8324]

If i want to say that i have homework, is it «у меня хомворк»? Or i should add есть? Same for «у меня травма»?

[@Juanferanez24]

Great lesson!!!

[@neonz2712]

I still don't understand how меня зовут is "my name" when зовут means name and меня means name. I have heard that меня зовут means "they call me" and not "my name is", but every single translator I have put this through says differently. Why do we say меня зовут and not мой зовут?

[@tiuri7001]

I'm very new to Russian, so I might be mistaken about this, but it seems зовут is the 3rd person plural present tense of звать, "to call". So зовут means "they call" and the literal meaning of меня зовут is "they call me". You cannot translate any part of the phrase as "name" since that's not what the words literally mean. Hope that's helpful:)

[@asdasdfasdfasdf7680]

famous children's poem: ... - А у меня в кармане гвоздь! А у вас? - А у нас сегодня гость! А у вас? - А у нас сегодня кошка Родила вчера котят. Котята выросли немножко, А есть из блюдца не хотят! - А у нас в квартире газ! А у вас? - А у нас водопровод! Вот! ...