(A conversation between me and a 19-year-old waitress in a beer garden on the right bank of Crişul Repede River)
Cu ce vă servesc?
What can I get you?
Adu-mi, te rog, o bere!
I’d like a beer, please!
Doriţi şi pahar?
Do you need a glass as well?
Da. Vezi, berea să fie rece bine!
Yes. Make sure that the beer is freezing cold!
Berea la halbă este foarte rece!
The draft beer is very cold!
Bine, atunci o Silva neagră la halbă!
Ok! I’ll have a mug of dark Silva then!
a servi – to wait on smb.
a aduce – to get
bere (beri) – beer
a ruga – to beg: Te rog! – Please!
a dori – to wish, to ask for
pahar – glass
halbă - mug
a vedea – to see; to make sure
rece – cold
bere blondă – light beer
bere neagră – dark beer
Ursus negru – dark Ursus (a brand of beer brewed in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca, contains 5.7 % alcohol)
Silva neagră – dark Silva (another delicious Romanian beer brand)
Other famous Romanian brands: Ciuc, Timişoreana, Golden Bräu (brewed by the notorious business men called the Chemical B
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