У нас общий план.

We have a common plan.

Breakdown of У нас общий план.

• мы: we
• план: the plan
• общий: general

Questions & Answers about У нас общий план.

Why do you say У нас to mean “we have”?

Russian often expresses possession with the construction у + [person in genitive] + (есть) + thing.

• у literally means “by / at / with (someone)”
• нас is the genitive of мы (“we”)

So у нас is literally “at us / with us”, which functions like “we have”.

Examples:

• У меня есть книга. – I have a book.
• У него есть машина. – He has a car.
• У нас общий план. – We have a shared plan.

The verb иметь (“to have”) exists but is much less common in everyday speech than this у + genitive pattern.

Is there a verb “to be” missing in У нас общий план?

In modern Russian, the present‑tense verb “to be” (быть) is usually omitted in simple statements:

• Он студент. – He (is) a student.
• Она дома. – She (is) at home.

So У нас общий план literally corresponds to:

• “By us (there) is a shared plan” → “We have a shared plan.”
  You could think of an underlying structure like У нас (есть) общий план, where есть is optional.

Using есть here (У нас есть общий план) is grammatically correct but carries a slightly different nuance (see next question).