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A2How to saykakóy u vas nómer telefóna

How to say “What’s your phone number?” in Russian

Asking is easy. Understanding the answer takes one trick: Russians read numbers in groups, not digit by digit.

Quick answer

Како́й у вас но́мер телефо́на?

kakóy u vas nómer telefóna — plus how Russians read numbers out in pairs

The options

Како́й у вас но́мер телефо́на?What’s your phone number? — polite
Дай свой но́мер.Give me your number. — informal
Мо́жно ваш телефо́н?May I have your phone number?
Запиши́те, пожа́луйста.Write it down, please.
Повтори́те ещё раз, ме́дленнее.Say it again, more slowly.

How the answer sounds

A Russian mobile number is eleven digits, written +7 9XX XXX-XX-XX. It is usually read as: code, then three digits, then two pairs — де́вять ноль пять, три́ста два́дцать оди́н, со́рок пять, шестьдеся́т семь. Learning to hear two-digit numbers as units is the whole skill.

Ноль

Zero is ноль, and in phone numbers you will also hear the colloquial но́мер восьмо́й style only for extensions. Landlines in Moscow start 4 9 5.

What you hear back

Запиши́те: во́семь, девятьсо́т…Write it down: eight, nine hundred…
Лу́чше в мессе́нджере.Better by messenger.
Я вам напишу́.I’ll text you.

Typical mistakes

Что ваш но́мер?

Како́й у вас но́мер?

Asking “which” uses како́й, not что.

но́мер телефо́н

но́мер телефо́на

“Number of the phone” — genitive.

Check yourself

Which is correct?

Како́й for “what / which”.

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