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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Form

Galina Petrovna checks the application at the kitchen table: surname, name, patronymic, and no for a man who has none; place of birth with no little word for in; registration address, ours; and block capitals, like in first grade.

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THE STORY

The kitchen table in Sokolniki in the evening, the application form between them. Sam and Galina Petrovna say the friendly you to each other, and he still calls her by her name and patronymic.

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Фамилия, имя, отчество.fa-MEE-li-ya, EE-mya, OT-chest-va.Surname, name, patronymic.
Купер, Сэм. Отчества у меня нет.KOO-per, SEM. OT-chest-va u me-NYA NYET.Cooper, Sam. I don't have a patronymic.
Тогда пиши «нет». Не придумывай.tag-DA pi-SHI NYET. nye pri-DOO-my-vay.Then write no. Don't invent one.
Я хотел написать «Томович».ya kha-TYEL na-pi-SAT TO-ma-vich.I wanted to write son of Tom.
за моим столомza ma-EEM sta-LOMat my table, word for word behind my table
За моим столом можно. В анкете нельзя.za ma-EEM sta-LOM MOZH-na. v an-KYE-tye nel-ZYA.At my table you may. On the form you may not.
Место рождения: в Портленде?MYES-ta razh-DYE-ni-ya: v PORT-len-dye?Place of birth: in Portland?
Без «в». Портленд, Орегон, США.byez VE. PORT-lent, a-re-GON, se-she-A.No in. Portland, Oregon, USA.
Адрес регистрации: твой?AD-res re-gi-STRA-tsi-i: TVOY?Registration address: yours?
печатными буквамиpe-CHAT-ny-mi BOOK-va-miin block capitals, word for word in printed letters

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