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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Eighty a Month

The rent, at the landlady's kitchen table with the agent's papers: eighty-five thousand roubles a month, commission fifty percent, with utilities, utilities separate, couldn't it be eighty, if Sam tunes the piano, I'll tune it for nothing once a season, then eighty, deposit eighty, commission forty, a contract for a year and I don't raise the rent.

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THE STORY

Vera Pavlovna's kitchen on the same stair, the agent's folder open on the table, the piano now in tune. The agent, the landlady, Sam and Katya all say the polite you; Katya and Sam are married.

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Восемьдесят пять тысяч рублей в месяц.VO-sim-di-syat PYAT TY-syach ru-BLYEY v MYE-syats.Eighty-five thousand roubles a month.
Комиссия пятьдесят процентов.ka-MEE-si-ya pi-di-SYAT pra-TSEN-taf.Commission fifty percent.
Восемьдесят пять с коммуналкой?VO-sim-di-syat PYAT s ka-mu-NAL-kay?Eighty-five with utilities?
Коммуналка отдельно, около семи.ka-mu-NAL-ka at-DYEL-na, O-ka-la si-MEE.Utilities separate, about seven.
А нельзя ли восемьдесят?a nil-ZYA li VO-sim-di-syat?Couldn't it be eighty?
Если Сэм настроит пианино, восемьдесят.YES-li SEM na-STRO-it pi-a-NEE-na, VO-sim-di-syat.If Sam tunes the piano, eighty.
Настрою бесплатно, раз в сезон.na-STRO-yu bis-PLAT-na, RAS f si-ZON.I'll tune it for nothing, once a season.
Залог восемьдесят, комиссия сорок.za-LOK VO-sim-di-syat, ka-MEE-si-ya SO-rak.Deposit eighty, commission forty.
Договор на год. Плату не поднимаю.da-ga-VOR na GOT. PLA-tu ni pad-ni-MA-yu.A contract for a year. I don't raise the rent.