Родительный падеж - To have something and pronouns

This is one of the reasons that I started with Родительный - it is used constantly.

• So, first of all let's get the new words out of the way. In English, to the answer to the question "whose car is that?" isn't - that's he car... you have to change it to his car. Similarly, you can do this in Russian too, you lucky people!

Here is one of the most important sentence structures you're going to learn:

The 'н' is used after prepositions only... so that applies for this following example.

Also, when you see его or ого in the родительны падеж, pronounce it like a 'v'!

У + 'owner' + есть

This is how you say that someone has something.

• So, "у вас есть чай?" means do you have tea? Literally this means is there tea by you?

• У меня есть пи́во. I have (a) beer.

• У него́ есть да́ча. He has a dacha(sp? - country house)

• У неё есть маши́на. She has a car.

See? Making some pretty good progress, you can make all sorts of claims now.

• Oh yeah, it's род. пад. because we're talking about belonging, if someone has something.