У нас одинаковое мнение.

we

Breakdown of У нас одинаковое мнение.

• мнение: the opinion
• одинаковый: same

Questions & Answers about У нас одинаковое мнение.

Why does Russian use У нас instead of something like “we have” with a verb, e.g. мы имеем?

Russian usually expresses possession with the structure у + [person in genitive] + есть / (no есть) instead of a verb like English “to have”.

• У нас одинаковое мнение.
  Literally: “At us [there is] the same opinion.” → “We have the same opinion.”

Using мы имеем одинаковое мнение is grammatically possible but:

• sounds bookish or overly formal in everyday speech, and
• the verb иметь is much less common in spoken Russian for simple possession.

So the natural, standard way to say “we have the same opinion” is with у нас, not мы имеем.

Why is it у нас, with нас, and not мы?

Because у always takes the genitive case.

Personal pronouns in the genitive are:

• у меня (of me / I have)
• у тебя (of you / you have – informal)
• у него, у неё (of him/her)
• у нас (of us / we have)
• у вас (of you – plural or formal)
• у них (of them)

So:

• мы = “we” (nominative, subject form)
• нас = “us / of us” (genitive, used after у)

Since the pattern is fixed—у + genitive—you must say у нас, not у мы.