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У бабушки на даче есть старый камин, и зимой возле него особенно уютно греться.
Meaning
Grandma has an old fireplace at the dacha, and in winter it is especially cozy to warm yourself near it.
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Breakdown of У бабушки на даче есть старый камин, и зимой возле него особенно уютно греться.
на
at
и
and
уютный
cozy
старый
old
Questions & Answers about У бабушки на даче есть старый камин, и зимой возле него особенно уютно греться.
Why does the sentence start with у бабушки? Does it mean at Grandma’s place or Grandma has?
It can suggest both, depending on how you understand the whole sentence.
In Russian, у + genitive is often used to express possession:
- У бабушки есть камин = Grandma has a fireplace
But у бабушки can also literally mean at Grandma’s place or by Grandma in the right context.
So in:
У бабушки на даче есть старый камин
the most natural English rendering is:
- Grandma has an old fireplace at her dacha
- or There is an old fireplace at Grandma’s dacha
Here бабушки is in the genitive case because it follows у.
Why is it на даче and not в даче?