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Lesson 5 of 10
Shops and hotels in Kyrgyz
Open, closed, a bag, the wifi password: the checkout and the front desk. Play the ten Kyrgyz words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Kyrgyz phrases in this lesson
- Сизде ... барбы?SIZ-de ... bar-BY
- Do you have...?
- Кайда...?KAI-da
- Where is...?
- Ачыкa-CHYK
- Open
- Жабыкzha-BYK
- Closed
- Чанта керекпи?CHAN-ta KE-rek-pi
- A bag?
- Өтө кымбатo-TO kym-BAT
- Too expensive
- Менде брондоо барmen-DE bron-DOO bar
- I have a reservation
- Эртең мененки тамак кошулганбы?er-TENG me-nen-KI ta-MAK ko-shul-gan-BY
- Is breakfast included?
- Wi-Fi сырсөзү кандай?WAI-fai syr-so-ZU kan-DAI
- What's the wifi password?
- ...болобу?bo-lo-BU
- Can I...?
Барбы is do you have (literally is there). Respectfully addresses shopkeeper as сизде.
Кайда is where. "Кайда сүт?" (where is milk?). Markets are small; staff are patient with non-speakers.
Чанта is bag. Plastic bags cost a few som in markets. Reusable bags mark you as practical.
Bargaining is expected at Osh Bazaar.
Сырсөз is literally "secret word".
Literally "is it possible ...?": отурсам болобу? (o-tur-SAM bo-lo-BU), can I sit?