Reading (A1): At the café
A short A1 Ukrainian dialogue: Anna orders a coffee and a croissant in a café and pays. With a word list, grammar notes, an English translation and comprehension questions.
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Read a short dialogue in a café, ordering and paying, and answer questions about it.
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У кафе
А́нна захо́дить у кафе́. Там те́пло і ти́хо.
— До́брий день! Що бажа́єте? — пита́є офіціа́нт.
— До́брий день. Ка́ву з молоко́м, будь ла́ска.
— Вели́ку чи мале́ньку?
— Мале́ньку. І ще оди́н круаса́н.
— До́бре. Щось іще́?
— Ні, дя́кую. Скі́льки це коштує?
— Шістдеся́т п’ять гри́вень.
А́нна пла́тить ка́рткою, сіда́є бі́ля вікна́ і п’є ка́ву.
Words to know
- захо́дить у
- goes into
- офіціа́нт
- waiter
- Що бажа́єте?
- What would you like? (the usual question in a café or shop)
- будь ла́ска
- please
- вели́ку чи мале́ньку
- a large one or a small one
- Щось іще́?
- Anything else?
- Скі́льки це коштує?
- How much is it? (literally: How much does this cost?)
- гри́вень
- hryvnias (when the number ends in five or more)
- пла́тить ка́рткою
- pays by card
- сіда́є
- sits down
Grammar in this text
What you order: the accusative
What you ask for is the object of the sentence, in the accusative, even when the verb is left out. Feminine nouns in -а take -у, and an adjective with them does the same: ка́ва → ка́ву, вели́ка → вели́ку.
- Ка́ву з молоко́м, будь ла́ска. A coffee with milk, please.
- — Вели́ку чи мале́ньку? “A large one or a small one?”
With milk, by card: the instrumental
З meaning with takes the instrumental (з молоко́м), and so does the thing you do something with, with no preposition (ка́рткою, by card).
- Ка́ву з молоко́м, будь ла́ска. A coffee with milk, please.
- А́нна пла́тить ка́рткою… Anna pays by card…
Prices: the noun after a number
Only the last word of a number counts. Шістдеся́т п’ять ends in five, so гри́вня is in the genitive plural: гри́вень.
- — Шістдеся́т п’ять гри́вень. “Sixty-five hryvnias.”
English translation
Anna goes into a café. It is warm and quiet there.
“Good afternoon! What would you like?” asks the waiter.
“Good afternoon. A coffee with milk, please.”
“A large one or a small one?”
“A small one. And a croissant, too.”
“Fine. Anything else?”
“No, thank you. How much is it?”
“Sixty-five hryvnias.”
Anna pays by card, sits down by the window and drinks her coffee.
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