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

Yesssss

it's not

Could'nt agree more

@@maximiliandoddclivedodd1087 Oh.. which IS?

Thank you:)

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

@@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.

@@poseidon7359 partially answered

@@user-pq2re2fw4t Я понимаю сейчас. Большое спасибо!

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

How's it going with the russian?

Аfter 5 years, what is your Russian level now?

:)

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

Thank you! I won't disappoint you.

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

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".

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

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

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. ;)

A very typical mistake with incorrect aspect :D

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

@@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.

Just added that to my idea list!

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.

ЕГО means his, like mine, her etc. НЕГО is other form for ОН (he) and has concrete rules of using

Мой/моя/моё are possessive pronouns, and therefore they go with a noun; while у меня is used to express possession, but it's not followed by a noun. Мой works as an adjective, for example: это мой телефон: this is MY phone. But you can't use у меня to say "my", because it's not a possessive pronoun. You can say у меня есть телефон: I HAVE a phone.

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

Emilia Michalek Explained perfectly