Questions & Answers about У меня нет никакого желания спорить.
Russian very often expresses possession with the pattern у + person + есть / нет, literally something like at someone there is / there isn’t.
So:
- У меня есть книга = I have a book
- У меня нет книги = I don’t have a book
That is why У меня нет никакого желания спорить literally looks like:
- у меня = at me
- нет = there is not / there isn’t
- никакого желания = no desire
- спорить = to argue
Using иметь is possible in Russian, but it is much less common in everyday speech for ordinary possession. Я не имею желания спорить sounds more formal, stiff, or bookish.
Because the preposition у requires the genitive case.
So:
- я = I
- меня = of me / me in the genitive
After у, personal pronouns change form:
- у меня = at me
- у тебя = at you
- у него = at him
- у неё = at her
So у меня is simply the fixed grammatical form needed after у.