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Наташа:
Сколько же тебе лет? "How old are you?"
{The "intensifying" particle
же, for which there is no readily available equivalent in
English, may be used in the above sentence to emphasize Natasha's bewilderment, for
example in the case when it is very difficult to believe that Andrei
divorced his wife so
many years ago because he still looks incredibly young}.
Андрей:
1.
Уже 32 (тридцать два) "Already 32"
2.
Ещё только 20 (двадцать) "Still only twenty". (Instead of
ещё, Andrei could use
another intensifier -
всего, which would not change the meaning of this sentence at all).
Because we started to talk
about numbers, it would be helpful to explain here how
Russian cardinal numerals are formed. The first ten smallest numbers, or figures (the
Russian word for
a number is
число and that for
a figure is цифра) are presented below:
1 -
один
2
– два
3 -
три
4 -
четы ре
5-
пять
6 -
шесть
7-
семь
8 -
восемь
9 -
де вять
0 -
ноль
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The Russian word for 10 is
десять. To form numerals from 11 to 19, what you
basically need is to take the numbers from 1 to 9 (although in a slightly changed form)
and add the suffix
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