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Daily used word (top 100)
- 1.
(possession)
у + subject in genitive case
У неё́ есть маши́на.
She has a car.
- 2.
by, at (place)
у + object in genitive case
Заброни́руй ме́сто у окна́!
Book a window seat!
- 3.
with
у + object in genitive case
Он до́лго жил у роди́телей дру́га.
He was living with his friend's parents.
- 4.
from (take, borrow)
у + object in genitive case
Ма́ша взяла́ это пла́тье у подру́ги.
Masha borrowed this dress from her friend.
Usage info
у окна́ - by the window У Ива́на есть маши́на - Ivan has a car
This last example shows that it is imperative for learners of Russian to know that the construction literally means: 'At/near/on ... Ivan is a car'. Otherwise, people who have just the one verb for 'to have' in their native languages (and express possession in an SVO-manner) can't make head nor tail of this most Russian of ways of expressing possession ('име́ть' admittedly means 'to have', but not usually in the literal sense).
Examples
- В про́шлом изве́стие о том, что у тебя туберкулёз, бы́ло равноце́нно сме́ртному пригово́ру.Some years ago, learning that one had tuberculosis amounted to hearing a sentence of death.
- Э́то займёт у меня слишком много вре́мени, чтобы объясни́ть, почему э́то не будет рабо́тать.It would take me too much time to explain to you why it's not going to work.
- У Вас есть прачечная?Do you have laundry service?
- Я ду́маю, у него всё полу́чится.I think that he will succeed.
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_999 edited usage info 6 months ago.
Дёвьсынъ edited usage info 4 years ago.
Lucian edited word type 7 years ago.
