🇷🇺Why do Russians say «ЕСТЬ» when nobody is eating? 😅 Because есть is actually doing two completely different jobs in Russian. 🍔 ЕСТЬ = to eat Я хочу есть. → I want to eat. Он сейчас ест. → He’s eating right now. Мы будем есть позже. → We’ll eat later. But then you hear: 🐱 У меня есть кот. → I have a cat. 📕 На столе есть книга. → There’s a book on the table. ⏰ У нас есть время. → We have time. Nobody is eating the cat, the book, or the time. 😂 Here есть means that something exists / is present / is available and it’s also used in the Russian structure for “to have”: У меня есть… → I have… У нас есть… → We have… Здесь есть… → There is / are… 💡 So when you see есть, don’t automatically think about food. Look at the structure and context. Same word. Completely different meaning. Welcome to Russian. 🇷🇺❤️