Choose a performance and seats, and ask how to get your ticket.
How the language works
Use an ordinal number to specify a row: besınşı qatar — “the fifth row”. “For two people” is ekı adamğa. Ekı bilet means “two tickets”: no plural ending is needed after the number.
Useful phrases
Read, recall the meaning and say it aloud. Then compare with the audio.
Senbıdegı qoiylymğa ekı bilet kerek.
I need two tickets for Saturday’s performance.
Qoiylym qai tılde ötedı?
What language is the performance in?
Qai qatarda bos oryn bar?
Which row has available seats?
Ekı oryn qatar bolsynşy.
Two seats together, please.
Qoiylym qanşa uaqytqa sozylady?
How long does the performance last?
Elektrondy bilettı qaidan jükteimın?
Where can I download the electronic ticket?
Dialogue
Senbıdegı qoiylymğa ekı bilet kerek.
I need two tickets for Saturday’s performance.
Besınşı jäne jetınşı qatarda oryn bar.
There are seats in the fifth and seventh rows.
Besınşı qatardan berıñızşı. Ekı oryn qatar bolsyn.
The fifth row, please. Two seats together.
Jaqsy, ortadağy ekı oryndy ūsynamyn.
All right, I suggest two seats in the middle.
Check your understanding
Choose an answer before opening the explanation. Then explain your choice.
1. Choose the correct translation: “Senbıdegı qoiylymğa ekı bilet kerek.”
- I need two tickets for Saturday’s performance.
- What language is the performance in?
- Which row has available seats?
- Where can I download the electronic ticket?
Answer and explanation
I need two tickets for Saturday’s performance.
Senbıdegı qoiylymğa ekı bilet kerek. — I need two tickets for Saturday’s performance.
2. How do you say: “Two seats together, please.”?
- Ekı oryn qatar bolsynşy.
- Elektrondy bilettı qaidan jükteimın?
- Qoiylym qai tılde ötedı?
- Qoiylym qanşa uaqytqa sozylady?
Answer and explanation
Ekı oryn qatar bolsynşy.
Ekı oryn qatar bolsynşy. — Two seats together, please.
3. How do you say “the fifth row”?
- Bes qatar
- Beseuı qatar
- Besınşı qatar
- Besten keiın
Answer and explanation
Besınşı qatar
Besınşı means “fifth”, whereas bes qatar means “five rows”.
Make it your own
Buy two adjacent seats and check the language and length of the performance.
- I gave the day and number of tickets
- I checked the language
- I asked for seats together
Example response
Senbıdegı qoiylymğa ekı bilet kerek. Qoiylym qai tılde ötedı? Ekı oryn qatar bolsynşy. Qoiylym qanşa uaqytqa sozylady?