Thread: How would you translate: У вас. У меня.

How would you translate: У вас. У меня.

I think it should be:

Yours. Mine.

Can't imagine a context where one can translate those phrases that way.

In my Pimsleur audio lessons, here is the example given (in English):

Question: Should we go to your place or mine?

Answer: Mine.

or

Answer: Yours.

When I translate it using something like Google Translate, I get something different from 'Mine' and 'Yours' so I am trying to understand it better.

Hmm. What exactly does the Russian speaker say?
"У меня" can mean either "at my place/in my house" etc., or "in my possession". (У меня есть книга = I have a book. Он живёт у меня = He's staying with me).
"Should we go to your place or mine?" could be something like "К тебе пойдём или ко мне?" in Russian.

Ah, thanks translationsmru.

It is explained to mean 'at my place' and 'at your place' but since another book I have didn't describe 'вас' and 'меня' as that, I figured it couldn't literally mean 'At my place' and 'At your place', since I don't see any words in the sentences that would correspond to 'place'. I guess it is just a Russian way of speaking that is inherently understood by natives? Or is it more detailed that that?

Originally Posted by SoftPretzel

I guess it is just a Russian way of speaking that is inherently understood by natives?

More or less.

It means where you are, where you live

У вас в России очень холодно бывает иногда.

У нас тут солнце редко светит.

It also can refer to something happening to you.

У меня голова болит

У него украли бумажник

This grammatical construction is widely used in Russian.
For a correct translation the extended context is always required.
I myself remember having difficulties with translation such a construction from russian into english because diversity of it's meaning is quite considerable.