Using méiyǒu and yǒu. Does méiyǒu mean "do not have"?
Another phrase set on my cd and not in my book are the phrases

méiyǒu and yǒu. For example,

wǒ yǒu kuài chìchē. Does yǒu mean "have" so it would be "I have a fast car"?

The next sentence is :

méiyǒu , nǐ yǒu màn chìchē. I understand that it means "No you don't, you have a slow car."

My question is what do yǒu and méiyǒu literally mean?

Does it literally mean "have" and "don't have"?

does méi literally mean not?

Why isn't it yǒu and bùyǒu ?

Question

Using méiyǒu and yǒu. Does  méiyǒu mean "do not have"?
Another phrase set  on my cd and not in my book are the phrases

méiyǒu and yǒu. For example,

wǒ  yǒu  kuài chìchē. Does yǒu mean "have" so it would be "I have a fast car"?

The next sentence is :

méiyǒu , nǐ yǒu màn chìchē.   I understand that it means "No you don't, you have a slow car."

My question is what do yǒu   and méiyǒu literally mean?

Does it literally mean "have" and "don't have"?

does méi literally mean not?

Why isn't it yǒu and bùyǒu ?

Answer

first,I have to say you understand the word "you"and "meiyou" correctly.
but there is something wrong in your passage."car"is "qiche"but not "chiche".
we use "you"to mean we have something .for example"I have a cute cat"means"wo you yizhi ke ai de mao".but in Chinese we say "you shihou "mean "sometimes",here "you"dont mean "have"
and "meiyou"means we dont have something like"wo meiyou qian"means"I dont have money",sometimes,"meiyou"also to express something didn't happen,like
"ni jintian qu xuexiao le ma(did u go to school)?"
"meiyou.(no,I didn't)"----here we also can say"bu,wo meiyou qu "
"bu"is to express negative .

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in the sentence "mei you"means "don't have", and "you" means "have". that is , you understood it correctly. we usually use"bu" for an answer that we don't agree with , and use "mei' for the things we don't have.