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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 13 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Who Is Who

Tea after dinner, the two families sorting out their names for each other: your mother and I are co-mothers-in-law now, and you're my mother-in-law, and you're my son-in-law, and I'm a great-grandmother, what is my mum to Katya, the husband's mother, a different word, Masha is a granddaughter to four people, and a great-granddaughter to one.

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THE STORY

Tea after dinner in the kitchen at Sokolniki, Sam's parents at the table, Masha asleep in the next room. Galina Petrovna and Sam say the friendly you; Sam is polite with Baba Valya, who says the friendly you to him.

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сватьиSVAT-yico-mothers-in-law: the two mothers of a married couple
Твоя мама и я теперь сватьи.tva-YA MA-ma i YA ti-PYER SVAT-yi.Your mother and I are co-mothers-in-law now.
А ты моя тёща.a TY ma-YA TYO-shcha.And you're my mother-in-law.
А ты мой зять.a TY MOY ZYAT.And you're my son-in-law.
кем ей приходитесьKYEM YEY pri-KHO-di-tyesare you related to her as, word for word come to her as whom
А вы кем ей приходитесь?a VY KYEM YEY pri-KHO-di-tyes?And what are you to her?
А я прабабушка.a YA pra-BA-bush-ka.And I'm a great-grandmother.
А Лена моя невестка.a LYE-na ma-YA ni-VYEST-ka.And Lena is my daughter-in-law.
Кем моя мама приходится Кате?KYEM ma-YA MA-ma pri-KHO-dit-sa KA-tye?What is my mum to Katya?
мать мужаMAT MOO-zhathe husband's mother

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