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Say It in Russian (Revised) - Dover
LISTEN & LEARN CASSETTES
Complete, practical at-home language learning courses for people with limited study time—specially designed for travelers.
Special features:
• Dual-language—Each phrase first in English, then the foreign-language equivalent, followed by a pause for repetition (allows for easy use of cassette even without manual).
• Native speakers—Spoken by natives of the country who are language teachers at leading colleges and universities.
• Convenient manual—Contains every word on the cassettes—all fully indexed for fast phrase or word location. Each boxed set contains one 90-minute cassette and complete manual.
Für Elyse—when you’re back in the U.S.S.R.
The Dover Say It series is prepared under the editorial supervision of R. A. Sorenson.
Copyright © 1982 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.
This Dover edition, first published in 1982, is a completely revised and enlarged work, which supersedes the book of the same title originally published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1954.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc.
180 Varick Street
New York, N.Y. 10014
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Flier, Michael S.
Say it in Russian.
(Dover say it
series)
Rev ed. of: Say it in Russian/N. C. Stepanoff. 1954.
Includes index.
1. Russian language—Conversation and phrase books—English. I. Stepanoff, N. C. Say it in Russian. II. Title.
PG2121.F53 1982
491.783’421
82-7292
9780486149318
AACR2
Table of Contents
LISTEN & LEARN CASSETTES
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
INTRODUCTION
PRONUNCIATION
THE RUSSIAN ALPHABET
EVERYDAY PHRASES
SOCIAL PHRASES
BASIC QUESTIONS
TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF
MAKING YOURSELF UNDERSTOOD
DIFFICULTIES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS
CUSTOMS
BAGGAGE
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
BOAT
AIRPLANE
TRAIN
BUS, TROLLEYBUS, SUBWAY, STREETCAR, MINIBUS
TAXI
RENTING AUTOS (AND OTHER VEHICLES)
AUTO: DIRECTIONS
AUTO: HELP ON THE ROAD
AUTO: GAS STATION AND REPAIR SHOP
PARTS OF THE CAR (AND AUTO EQUIPMENT)
TELEGRAM
TELEPHONE
HOTEL
CHAMBERMAID
HOUSEKEEPING
CAFÉ AND BAR
RESTAURANT
FOOD: SEASONINGS
BEVERAGES
BREAKFAST FOODS
MISCELLANEOUS DAIRY PRODUCTS
APPETIZERS
SOUPS
SALADS
MEATS
POULTRY
FISH AND SEAFOOD
VEGETABLES AND STARCHES
FRUITS
DESSERTS
SIGHTSEEING
WORSHIP
ENTERTAINMENTS
NIGHTCLUB AND DANCING
SPORTS AND GAMES
HIKING AND CAMPING
BANK AND MONEY
SHOPPING
CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES
COLORS
MATERIALS
BOOKSHOP, STATIONER, NEWSDEALER
PHARMACY
DRUGSTORE ITEMS
CAMERA SHOP AND PHOTOGRAPHY
GIFTS AND SOUVENIRS
TOBACCO STORE
LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING
REPAIRS AND ADJUSTMENTS
BARBER SHOP
BEAUTY PARLOR
STORES AND SERVICES
BABY CARE
HEALTH AND ILLNESS
AILMENTS
DENTIST
ACCIDENTS
PARTS OF THE BODY
TIME
WEATHER
DAYS OF THE WEEK
HOLIDAYS
DATES, MONTHS AND SEASONS
NUMBERS: CARDINALS
NUMBERS: ORDINALS
QUANTITIES
FAMILY
COMMON SIGNS AND PUBLIC NOTICES
INDEX
ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR SERIES
INTRODUCTION
Say It in Russian is based on Contemporary Standard Russian, the literary norm of the Russian language as spoken in the Soviet Union today. Although the standard language is based on the Central Russian dialect spoken in Moscow and differs in a number of respects from the spoken dialects of northern and southern Russia, it is readily understood by all Russian speakers and by most Soviet citizens whose first language is not Russian.
Russian is related to most of the languages of Eastern Europe. As a Slavic language, it falls into the East Slavic group along with Ukrainian and Belorussian (White Russian). The West Slavic group includes Czech, Slovak and Polish, while Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian are among the South Slavic languages. The 1980 edition of The World Almanac estimates that there are 259 million speakers of Russian, a figure that places it third, after Mandarin Chinese and English, among the major languages of the world.
NOTES ON THE USE OF THIS BOOK
Say It in Russian is divided into sections by topics geared to various situations likely to be encountered by the traveler in the Soviet Union. Such topics include social conversation, travel, eating, shopping, health and illness. The entries in most sections are alphabetized according to their English headings; exceptions are the sections on food and public notices and signs, which are alphabetized according to the Russian to permit quick and easy reference.
In the extensive index at the end of the book, capitalized items refer to section headings and give the number of the page on which the section begins. All other numbers refer to the separate, consecutively numbered entries. The index itself serves as a useful English-Russian glossary; any word not in the section where you expect to find it is likely to be in the index.
Say It in Russian contains words, phrases and sentences likely to be essential for travel in the Soviet Union. This material will serve as an interesting introduction to spoken Russian if you plan to study the language, but will be useful whether or not you study Russian on a formal basis. With the aid of the index, a guidebook, or an English-Russian dictionary, many sentence patterns here will answer innumerable needs. For example, the slot occupied by Red Square
in the sentence
How long does it take to walk to [Red Square]?
may be filled by any other word or phrase denoting a nearby destination, such as Gorky Street
or Hotel Rossiya.
¹ In other sentences, the words in square brackets can be replaced with words immediately following (in the same sentence or in the indented entries below it). For example, the entry
Turn [left] [right] at the next corner.
provides two sentences: Turn left at the next corner
and Turn right at the next corner.
Three sentences are provided by the entry
Give me a seat [on the aisle].
—by a window.
—by the emergency exit.
As your Russian vocabulary grows, you will find that you can express an increasingly wide range of thoughts by the proper substitution of words in these model sentences.
A slash is used to separate alternative entries when an English word can be translated by Russian words which are not synonymous:
Factory (heavy industry/light industry).
.
Please note that while brackets always indicate the possibility of substitution, parentheses have been used to provide additional information. They are used to indicate synonyms or alternative usage for an entry:
Hello (OR: Hi).
Occasionally, parentheses may be used to clarify a word or to explain something unfamiliar to English speakers (such as Russian foods). The abbreviation (LIT.)
is used whenever a literal translation of a Russian sentence is provided. Parentheses are also used to indicate words that can readily be omitted:
.
The Russian word for our
is often omitted from this phrase.
Parentheses also indicate different forms of the same word that vary according to gender or number. Though it is not the purpose of this book to teach Russian grammar, parentheses are used to clarify grammatical points necessary for producing correct phrases. Nouns in Russian are either masculine (M.), feminine (F.) or neuter (N.). Adjectives, pronouns, participles and past-tense verbs also vary according to gender and whether they are singular (SG.) or plural (PL.). The entry I am a student
is translated in either of two ways, depending on whether the speaker is male or female:
).
yah — stoo-DyEHNT (F.: stoo-DyEHNT-kuh).
Please note, too, that Russian has no articles (a, an, the) or, in most cases, present-tense forms of the verb to be
; thus, you can produce sentences of this type without further study:
. ohn — DOHK-tuhr.
(pah-ZHAH-lï-stuh) whenever you would normally say please
in English.
PRONUNCIATION
The explanatory chart of the simplified phonetic transcription system provided below will aid you in the correct pronunciation of Russian words. But the transcription is at best only an approximation of Russian sounds; ultimate precision and consistency have occasionally been sacrificed for simplicity and ease of comprehension. You will derive great benefit from listening to and repeating aloud recorded Russian speech as provided in the Dover Listen & Learn language recordings for Russian.
Russian, with rare exceptions, stresses only one syllable in each word; the vowels in unstressed syllables are subject to varying degrees of alteration in sound (discussed below). In our transcription system, syllables are separated by hyphens and the stressed syllable is printed in capital letters:
á. roo-KAH.
. VOHT-kuh.
One-syllable words are not capitalized even when they bear normal word stress:
. soop.
Most one-syllable Russian prepositions and particles do not carry their own stress; they are pronounced together with the words they precede or follow. In our transcription system they will either be joined directly to the words or connected by hyphens:
ý. vmahsk-VOO.
. duh-mahsk-VÏ.
I . yah khah-TyEHL-bï.
For the convenience of the user, the accented syllables have also been marked in the Russian text of this book, though they are not normally marked in printed Russian.
CONSONANTS
Most Russian consonants have hard and soft pronunciation variants, while others are either always hard or always soft. A soft consonant is pronounced with the tongue flattened, moved slightly forward, and raised towards the roof of the mouth; this can be approximated by adding a slight y sound to the hard consonant. Thus the hard Russian b sounds like the English b in booty, while soft Russian by is similar to the English b in beauty. For those Russian consonants that permit both hard and soft pronunciation, the Remarks column of the chart below provides rough English equivalents for the hard variant only; the soft variant will be indicated in our transcription by a small y following the consonant.
THE RUSSIAN ALPHABET
The Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet is given below with the names of the letters transcribed after them. You will need to learn the order of the letters in order to read signs, consult a Russian-English dictionary, and make the most effective use of the glossary in the back of this book; the letters’ names are used in spelling out words.
EVERYDAY PHRASES
1. Hello (OR: Hi).
).
ZDRAHST-voo ee-tyih (OR: pryee-VyEHT).
2. Good morning.
. DOH-bruh-yuh OO-truh.
3. Good day (OR: Good afternoon).
. DOH-brï ee dyehny.
4. Good evening. . DOH-brï ee VyEH-chihr.
5. Good night.
. spah-KOY-nuh ee NOH-chee.
6. Welcome.
. dah-BROH pah-ZHAH-luh-vuht .
7. Goodbye.
. duh-sv ee-DAHN -yuh.
8. See you later.á. pah-KAH.
9. Yes. á. dah.
10. No. Hé . n eht.
11. Perhaps (OR: Maybe).
. MOH-zhuht bïty.
12. Please.a. pah-ZHAH-lï-stuh.
13. Allow me.
é. pah-ZVOHLy-tyih mnyeh.
14. Excuse me (OR: I’m sorry).
).·
eez-vyee-NyEE-tyih (OR: prah-STyEE-tyih) (myih-NyAH).²
15. Thanks [very much].
óe].
spah-SyEE-buh [bahly-SHOH-yuh]
16. You are welcome (OR: Don’t mention it).
o).
pah-ZHAH-l -stuh (OR: N EH-zuh-shtuh).
17. All right (OR: Very good).
xopomo).
khuh-rah-SHOH (OR: OH-chihny khuh-rah-SHOH).
18. It doesn’t matter (OR: It’s nothing).
).
EH-tuh nyih-VAHZH-nuh (OR: nyee-chih-VOH).
19. Don’t bother.
. nyih-byih-spah-KOY-tyihsy.
20. You have been very kind.
vï B -lyee OH-chihny dah-BRÏ.
21. You have been very helpful.
v OH-chihny puh-mah-GLy EE.
22. Come in. . zuh-khah-DyEE-tyih.
23. Come here.
á.
puh-dah ee-DyEE-tyih syoo-DAH.
24. Come with me.
. pah ee-DyOHM-tyih sahm-NOY.
25. Come back later.
. vyihr-NyEE-tyihsy POH-zhhih.
26. Come early.
.
pryee-khah-DyEE-tyih pah-RAHNy-sh .
27. Wait a minute. y. myee-NOOT-koo.
28. Wait for us.
ác. puh-dahzh-D’EE-tih nahs.
29. Not yet. . nyeht yih-SHHOH.
30. Right away.ác. syih-CHAHS.
31. Not now. ác. nyih-syih-CHAHS.
32. Listen. e. pah-SLOO-shuh ee-tyih.
33. Look out!! ah-stah-ROHZH-nuh!
34. Be careful.
. BOOTy-tyih ah-stah-ROHZH-nï.
SOCIAL PHRASES
35. May I introduce [Mrs. Elena Nikolaevna Petrov]?³
y].
ruhz-ryih-SHÏ-tyih pryiht-STAH-vyeety [yih-LyEH-noo nyee-kah-LAH-yihv-noo pyih-TROH-voo].
36. —Mr. Alexei Vladimirovich Petrov.³
.
—ah-lyihk-SyEH-yuh vlah-DyEE-myee-ruh-vyee-chuh pyih-TROH-vuh.
37. Pleased to meet you.
).
OH-chihny pryee-YAHT-nuh (puh-znah-KOH-myeet-tsuh SVAH-myee).
38. How are you?
e? kahk puh-zhï-VAH-yih-tyih?
39. Very well, thanks, and you?
?
spah-SyEE-buh, khuh-rah-SHOH, ah-VÏ?
40. How are things?á? kahk dyih-LAH?
41. All right (OR: Fine).
ó).
khuh-rah-SHOH (OR: nyee-chih- VOH).
42. So, so.é. tahk syih-ByEH.
43. What’s new?? shtoh NOH-vuh-vuh?
44. Please have a seat.
.
sah-DyEE-tyihsy, pah-ZHAH-lï-stuh.
45. It’s a pleasure to see you again.
.
OH-chihnypryee-YAHT-nuh vahs VyEE-dyihty ah-PyAHTy.
46. Congratulations (LIT.: I/we congratulate).
. puh-zdrahv-LyAH-yoo/puh-zdrahv-LyAH-yihm.
47. All the best.
o.
fsyih-VOH nuh-ee-LOOCH-shuh-vuh.
48. I like you very much.
.
vï mn’eh OH-chihny NRAH-yyee-tyihsy.
49. I love you.. yah lyoo-BLyOO vahs.
50. May I see you again?
?
MOHZH-nuh vahs oo-VyEE-dyihty yih-SHHOH rahs?
51. Let’s make a date for next week.
.
nah-ZNAH-chihm svyee-DAH-nyee-yuh nah-BOO-doo-shhih ee nyih-DyEH-lyih
52. I have enjoyed myself very much.
.
mnyeh BÏ-luh OH-chihny pryee-YAHT-nuh.
53. Give my regards [to your friend].
)].
pyih-ryih-DAH EE-tyih pryee-VyEHT [VAH-shuh-moo pryee-YAH-tyih-lyoo (F.: VAH-shuh ee pryee-YAH-t yily-nyee-tsi)].
54. —your girlfriend.
. — VAH-shuh ee pah-DROO-gyih.
55. —your boyfriend.
y.
—VAH-shuh-moo muh-lah-DOH-moo chih-lah-VyEH-koo.
See also Family,
p. 170.
BASIC QUESTIONS
56. What? ó? shtoh?
57. What did you say?
? shloh vï skah-ZAH-lyee?
58. What is that?