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Comment from: LV [Visitor]
I don't know if you take "requests"; if you do, I would like to suggest the verb иметь as a topic for one of your future posts. According to various textbooks and even the Oxford Russian Dictionary, it refers to "abstract possession", for example иметь место or иметь значение. The above example "Дед имеет четыре пары очков" however suggest that in some cases it can also be used with "concrete possession" (four pairs of glasses), whereas textbooks generally teach that in this case the construction with у ... есть must be used.

Don responds: The topic has now been briefly addressed here.
09/12/09 @ 00:53

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