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Russian usually expresses possession with the pattern у + genitive + есть.
So:
- у меня = at me / with me
- есть = there is / exists
- вопрос = a question
Literally, У меня есть вопрос is something like At me there is a question, but in natural English it means I have a question.
The verb иметь does exist in Russian, but it is much less commonly used for ordinary possession than у меня есть. Saying Я имею вопрос would sound unnatural in most everyday situations.
The preposition у requires the genitive case, so я changes to меня.
That is why you get:
- я = I
- меня = me / of me (genitive or accusative form, depending on context)
- у меня = at me / with me
This is a very common pattern in Russian:
- У меня есть книга. = I have a book.
- У тебя есть время? = Do you have time?
- У него есть машина. = He has a car.