Если у тебя есть немного времени, давай обсудим план.

Russian usually expresses possession with the pattern у + person + есть + thing.

So:

• у тебя = by you / at your place
• есть = there is / there exists

Literally, у тебя есть немного времени is something like At your disposal there is a little time.

This is the normal everyday way to say you have in Russian:

• У меня есть машина. = I have a car.
• У нас есть вопрос. = We have a question.

Russian does have the verb иметь (to have), but it is much less common in ordinary speech and often sounds formal, bookish, or abstract.

After the preposition у, Russian uses the genitive case.

The pronoun ты changes like this:

• nominative: ты
• genitive: тебя

So:

• у тебя = with you / at your place / you have

This is a fixed and very common structure, so it is worth memorizing as a whole:

• у меня
• у тебя
• у него
• у неё
• у нас
• у вас
• у них

Если means if.

The sentence has two clauses:

1. Если у тебя есть немного времени
2. давай обсудим план

Russian normally puts a comma between the if-clause and the main clause:

• Если ..., ...

So the comma is required here.

You will see this pattern very often:

• Если хочешь, пойдём. = If you want, let’s go.
• Если будет время, позвони. = If there’s time, call.

Because немного usually takes a noun in the genitive case.

The noun время changes like this:

• nominative: время
• genitive: времени

So:

• немного времени = a little time / some time

This is similar to other quantity expressions in Russian:

• много времени = a lot of time
• мало времени = little time
• несколько минут = a few minutes

So after words of quantity, Russian often uses the genitive.

It can mean either, depending on context.

In this sentence, немного времени suggests:

• a little time
• some spare time
• a bit of time

It does not usually mean a long period of time. It implies a modest amount.

Compare:

• У тебя есть немного времени? = Do you have a little time?
• У тебя есть время? = Do you have time? (more neutral, less specific)
• У тебя много времени? = Do you have a lot of time?

Here давай is used to make a suggestion, similar to:

• let’s
• come on, let’s

So:

• давай обсудим план = let’s discuss the plan

This is very common in conversational Russian.

Examples:

• Давай пойдём домой. = Let’s go home.
• Давай начнём. = Let’s begin.

With ты, давай sounds natural and friendly. With вы, you might hear:

• давайте обсудим план = let’s discuss the plan (more formal or plural)

Обсудим is the 1st person plural future form of the perfective verb обсудить.

After давай / давайте, Russian very often uses:

• давай + first person plural future perfective

So:

• давай обсудим = let’s discuss

The idea is to suggest completing a single action.

Compare:

• обсудить = perfective, to discuss and reach the discussion as a completed event
• обсуждать = imperfective, to be discussing / to discuss in general or repeatedly

In this sentence, the speaker means let’s discuss the plan now / as one concrete action, so обсудим is the natural choice.

They are related, but not identical.

• обсудить план = to discuss the plan
  • often implies exchanging ideas, considering details, maybe making decisions
• говорить о плане = to talk about the plan
  • more general
• поговорить о плане = to have a talk about the plan
  • often less focused than обсудить

So обсудим план sounds a bit more purposeful than just поговорим о плане.

Russian has no articles, so there is no direct equivalent of the or a/an.

Whether план means:

• a plan
• the plan

depends on context.

In this sentence, the meaning is probably the plan, because both speakers likely know which plan is meant. But Russian does not mark that with an article.

This is normal:

• Я купил книгу. = I bought a book / the book
• Мы обсудим план. = We’ll discuss the plan / a plan

Context tells you which meaning is intended.

This sentence is informal because it uses:

• у тебя
• давай

These are forms used with ты.

For a stranger, teacher, boss, or in polite situations, you would normally use вы forms:

• Если у вас есть немного времени, давайте обсудим план.

That is the polite or formal version.

So the original sentence is best for:

• friends
• classmates you are on ты terms with
• family
• close coworkers, depending on workplace culture

Yes, Russian word order is fairly flexible, although some versions sound more natural than others.

The original:

• Если у тебя есть немного времени, давай обсудим план.

Possible variations:

• Давай обсудим план, если у тебя есть немного времени.
• Если у тебя немного времени есть, давай обсудим план. — possible, but less neutral
• Если немного времени у тебя есть, давай обсудим план. — marked, used for emphasis

The original sentence is the most neutral and natural for everyday speech.

The main stresses are:

• Е́сли
• у тебя́
• е́сть
• немно́го
• вре́мени
• дава́й
• обсу́дим
• план

A rough pronunciation guide:

• Если ≈ YES-lee
• у тебя ≈ oo tee-BYA
• есть ≈ yest’
• немного ≈ nee-MNO-ga
• времени ≈ VRYE-mi-ni
• давай ≈ da-VAI
• обсудим ≈ ab-SOO-dim
• план ≈ plahn

A natural rhythm would be: Е́сли у теб-я́ е́сть немно́го вре́мени, дава́й обсу́дим план.

Yes, sometimes есть can be omitted in Russian, especially when the meaning is still clear.

So:

• Если у тебя есть немного времени...
• Если у тебя немного времени...

Both are possible.

But there is a nuance:

• у тебя есть немного времени clearly means you have a little time
• у тебя немного времени can sound a bit more like you only have a little time or simply a more compact version, depending on context

In this sentence, keeping есть is very natural and clear for learners.