Travel and Tourist Transactions

В кассе 🎫

A transaction is short in any language. In Russian it is shorter still, and the first time you see a Russian question written out you will think a word has been missed off. It has not. Every word below is shown three ways: the **Cyrillic**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English**. Read the Cyrillic first and use the transliteration only to check the sound.

Key words 🗂️

The nouns a traveller needs. Watch the last one, which does not mean what it looks like:

Match each word to its meaning

Two words that are not there ✂️

You already know that Russian has **no articles**: море means sea, a sea and the sea. Here is the second missing word, and together they explain why Russian sentences look too short. **Russian does not use a word for "is" in the present tense.**

What does it mean? 🚉

You see the question Где вокзал? written on a sign. What is it asking?

• Where is the station?
• Nothing: a word has been left out by mistake
• There is a station
• Which station?

The rule 📝

Russian has no word for _____ and no word for _____ in the present tense. So "Where is the station?" is just _____, and "This is a ticket" is just _____. The words are not _____: they do not exist in Russian at all.

Asking for it 💬

Three expressions turn a noun into a transaction:

Order the exchange 🔀

An interactive activity.

Which are right? ✅

Select the TWO sentences that are correct Russian.

• Где касса? for "Where is the ticket office?"
• Это ключ. for "This is a key."
• Где есть касса? as the everyday way to ask where it is
• Это а билет. for "This is a ticket."

На вокзале 🧭

An interactive activity.

The summary 🖊️

The Russian for a ticket is _____ and the railway station is _____. A hotel room is _____, which also means a number. To ask a price you say _____. Russian uses no word for "the" and no word for _____ in the present.

Your turn ✍️

An interactive activity.