a.     Acquaintance

-        What is your name?

       My name is Ariunjargal , Ariuna for short.

- What is his/her nickname?

- What’s the pet name of the child?

- How do you spell your name?  

       A-r-i-u-n-a-a.

- I would like you to meet my husband. His name is Bat.

- Allow me to introduce Mr. Tumur to you. He is my friend.

- I should like to introduce to you Mr.Tumur, who is my friend.  

- Let me introduce you to him.

- May I introduce myself.

- I want you to meet Mrs. A.

- Perhaps, I know you. We've met before.

        I don't think we have met before.

        Mr.T, if I’m not mistaken.

- I’ve heard about you from T…. (I’ve heard of you through your sister.)

- I seem to know your face. (Your face looks familiar to me, but, I’m sorry, I forgot

your name. I saw you somewhere before.

-Once they were best friends.

- Don’t you remember me? (Don’t you recognize me? )

   I have no idea who he is. (I have known her since she is in Korea.)

- Have you meet Mrs. R.?

- Pleased to meet you.

- Glad (nice) to meet you.

- I saw her once. (We often meet. We seldom meet. She and I meet sometimes.)

- I have the pleasure of meeting her sometimes.

- We are friends. (We have broken off our relationships. We are broken up. We are not

  friends anymore./any longer/) We might become friends later.)

Maiden name- nuhurt garaagui bh ueiin ner

Nickname-hoch ner

Pet name of the child- huuhed bhad uhuurduj enhriilsen ner

Short name-tovch ner  

Full name- buten ner

Family (patronymic) name- urgiin ovgiin ner

Last name- ovog ner

First name- uuriin ner

Printed name- darmaldsan ner

b.     Greeting

     Good morning!

      Good afternoon!

      Good evening!

      How do you do? (Howdy)

      Hello! Hallo! Hi!

     - (I'm) glad to see you!

             Me too.

       I haven't seen you for weeks. I hope you are feeling well.

      -Hi. How are you? (How is the family?, How are you doing? What’s new? What’s up?)

             Thank you, very well.

             Thank you, not so bad.

             Thank you, so-so

             (I'm) Fine, thank you.

              Nothing special.

-         How are you feeling?

               So-so

               We are all right.

               Not too bad.

               I’m quite /pretty/ well. Thank you.

               I’m not well. (I’m not feeling well)

               Terrible.

-         How are things? How is life?

    Not bad, could be worse.

    Perfectly.

-        Hi. How r u? What have you been up to? What have you been doing for last months?

    I’ve been working in other city.  

·       Америк хар яриа

- Just the person. (uulzaya gej bodoj yavsan hunteigee genet taarval)

  Fancy meeting you here. (sanaand oromgui huntei sanaand oromgui gazar taaraldval)

-Hi. What do you know? (Hi. What’s up? (yutaiv?) How are you?-tai tustei)

 How are you making out? (How’s it going? How’s everything going?. How are you doing?)

      Great. (Not bad)

      Still hanging in there. (yaj ingeed bolgoj yavna, amid shuu l yavnadaa)

      Like always. (About the same. hevendee shivdee)

      Not much. (yumguidee, goid yumgui, bahi baidgaaraa)

      So-so. (yahavdee, gaigui gelderch bna)

      Pretty good. (surhii shu)