У меня есть срочный вопрос.

Russian usually does not use a direct verb meaning to have in everyday possession sentences.

Instead, it uses this pattern:

• у + person in the genitive + есть + thing

Literally, У меня есть срочный вопрос is something like:

• At me there is an urgent question

Natural English: I have an urgent question.

So this is the normal Russian way to express possession or having something.

Меня is the genitive case of я (I).

It appears in the genitive because the preposition у requires the genitive. In possession phrases like this:

• у меня = with me / at my place / in my possession

Some common forms are:

• у меня = I have
• у тебя = you have
• у него = he has
• у неё = she has
• у нас = we have

So меня is not random here; it is exactly the form required after у.

Here есть means something like there is / there exists.

In this sentence, it helps express that something is present or exists in your possession:

• У меня есть вопрос = I have a question

This есть is related to the verb быть (to be), but in modern Russian this construction is best understood as an existence/possession pattern.

Yes, very often you can.

• У меня есть срочный вопрос = I have an urgent question
• У меня срочный вопрос = also I have an urgent question

The version with есть can sound a bit more explicit, as in I do have or there is an urgent question. The version without есть is very common in conversation and often sounds a little more natural in fast everyday speech.

Both are correct.

Срочный is an adjective meaning urgent.

It has the ending -ый because it agrees with вопрос, which is:

• masculine
• singular
• nominative

Russian adjectives must agree with the nouns they describe in:

• gender
• number
• case

Since вопрос is masculine singular nominative, the adjective also takes the masculine singular nominative form:

• срочный вопрос = urgent question

Compare:

• срочный вопрос = masculine
• срочная проблема = feminine
• срочное дело = neuter
• срочные вопросы = plural

Вопрос is the thing being stated as existing or being possessed, so it normally appears in the nominative singular in this kind of sentence.

In:

• У меня есть срочный вопрос

the possessed item is:

• срочный вопрос

and that noun phrase stays in the nominative.

So:

• у меня = possessor
• есть = there is / exists
• срочный вопрос = the thing that exists

The neutral word order is:

• У меня есть срочный вопрос.

This is the most straightforward way to say it.

Russian word order is flexible, so other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Срочный вопрос у меня есть.
• Есть у меня срочный вопрос.

But these sound more marked or stylistic. For a learner, the safest normal version is:

• У меня есть срочный вопрос.

A careful pronunciation guide is:

• У меня́ есть сро́чный вопро́с.

Stress:

• меня́
• сро́чный
• вопро́с

Approximate pronunciation for an English speaker:

• oo mye-NYA yest SROCH-nyy va-PROS

A few notes:

• у sounds like oo
• я in меня sounds roughly like ya
• чн in срочный is pronounced like chn
• final unstressed vowels are often reduced in normal speech

Срочный is a very common and useful word for urgent, especially for things like:

• срочный вопрос = urgent question
• срочное дело = urgent matter
• срочный звонок = urgent call

But Russian also has related words, such as:

• важный = important
• неотложный = urgent, pressing, often more formal
• экстренный = emergency, urgent in a more extreme sense

So срочный вопрос is a very natural phrase, but it is specifically urgent, not just important.

Yes.

• У меня вопрос. = I have a question.
• У меня срочный вопрос. = I have an urgent question.

Adding срочный simply gives more information about the question.

In real conversation, У меня вопрос is extremely common.

Russian has no articles like a, an, or the.

So вопрос by itself can mean:

• a question
• the question

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, English naturally translates it as:

• I have an urgent question

because that is what makes the most sense in context.

By itself, У меня есть срочный вопрос is correct, but it can sound direct.

To make it more polite, you could add something like:

• Извините, у меня есть срочный вопрос. = Excuse me, I have an urgent question.
• Простите, у меня срочный вопрос. = Sorry/Excuse me, I have an urgent question.
• Можно задать срочный вопрос? = May I ask an urgent question?

So the sentence itself is fine, but in real situations Russian often adds a polite opener.