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🇷🇺 Russian · Intermediate Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Registry Office

Dima and his witness at the registry office desk, Lena on Sam's phone: we'd like to register a marriage, let me see whether the fourteenth is free, ask Lena whether two suits her, she asks whether there'll be music, the question is whether you want the ceremonial hall, and I don't know whether you've paid.

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THE STORY

The desk of a registry office in Moscow on a January afternoon, Dima filing the application with Sam as his witness, and Lena, at work, on the other end of Sam's phone. Dima and Sam say the friendly you to each other and the polite you to the registrar, who says the polite you to them.

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Мы хотим зарегистрировать брак.my kha-TEEM za-rye-gis-TREE-ra-vat BRAK.We'd like to register a marriage.
Посмотрю, свободно ли четырнадцатое.pa-sma-TRYU, sva-BOD-na li che-TYR-na-tsa-ta-ye.Let me see whether the fourteenth is free.
Спроси Лену, подходит ли ей два.spra-SEE LYE-nu, pad-KHO-dit li YEY DVA.Ask Lena whether two suits her.
Лена спрашивает, будет ли музыка.LYE-na SPRA-shi-va-yet, BOO-dyet li MOO-zy-ka.Lena asks whether there'll be music.
хотите ли вы торжественный залkha-TEE-tye li VY tar-ZHEST-vyen-ny ZALwhether you want the ceremonial hall
Будет. Вопрос, хотите ли вы торжественный зал.BOO-dyet. va-PROS, kha-TEE-tye li VY tar-ZHEST-vyen-ny ZAL.There will. The question is whether you want the ceremonial hall.
Торжественный, конечно.tar-ZHEST-vyen-ny, ka-NYESH-na.The ceremonial one, of course.
Не знаю, заплатили ли вы.nye ZNA-yu, za-pla-TEE-li li VY.I don't know whether you've paid.
Дима спрашивает, можно ли заплатить здесь.DEE-ma SPRA-shi-va-yet, MOZH-na li za-pla-TEET ZDYES.Dima asks whether one can pay here.