У меня есть срочный вопрос.

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Breakdown of У меня есть срочный вопрос.

• вопрос: the question
• срочный: urgent

Questions & Answers about У меня есть срочный вопрос.

Why does Russian use у меня есть instead of a verb like I have?

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.

What case is меня, and why is it in that case?

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.

What does есть mean here?