Lesson 5 shows us a conversation between Ági, a customer, and a waiter. Ági just wants a drink, but has a hard time getting one!

Please see below for the dialogue and vocabulary for Lesson 5 below. Try your best to learn all of the new expressions, and see if you can memorize the dialogue too!

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Dialogue for Lesson 5 (formal speech):

Ági: Legyen szíves!

Pincér: Parancsoljon.

Ági: Kérek szépen egy sört.

Pincér: Elnézést, nincsen sör.

Ági: Nincs sör? Akkor kérek egy kólát.

Pincér: Sajnos, nincs kóla.

Ági: Akkor mi van?

Pincér: Ásványví­z van.

Ági: Jó. Kérek szépen egy ásványvizet.

Pincér: Tessék. Ezer forint lesz.

Ági: Ezer forint??!?!?!?

Dialogue for Lesson 5 (English translation):

Ági: Excuse me!

Waiter: At your service.

Ági: I’d like a beer, please.

Waiter: Sorry, we don’t have beer.

Ági: No beer? Then I’ll have a cola.

Waiter: Unfortunately, we don’t have cola.

Ági: Then what do you have?

Waiter: We have mineral water.

Ági: Fine. I’d like a mineral water, please.

Waiter: Here you are. That’ll be 1,000 forint.

Ági: 1,000 forint??!?!?!?

Vocabulary for Lesson 5:

Erzsébet – Elizabeth

is – also, too

belga – Belgian

Belga vagyok. – I’m Belgian.

hat – six

hét – seven

nyolc – eight

kilenc – nine

tíz – ten

legyen szíves (formal) – please

parancsoljon – at your service

Kérek szépen… – I’d like…

sör – beer

elnézést – excuse me, I’m sorry

nincs (nincsen) – we don’t have, there is no

kóla – cola, soda pop, Coke

sajnos – unfortunately

Mi van? – What do you have?

ásványvíz – mineral water

ví­z – water

ezer – one thousand

Grammar for Lesson 5:

1. there is/there isn’t

There is (something). –> (Something) van.

Ex. Ásványvíz van. We have mineral water.

There isn’t (something). –> Nincs (something).

Ex. Nincs sör. We don’t have beer.

2. Direct object ending

-the direct object takes a “-t” ending:

kóla –> kólát

sör –> sört

Kérek szépen egy kólát. I’d like a cola, please.