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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | да что вы! это ведь вы заговорили первая! | oh, I say! It was you who spoke to me! |
| gen. | заговорить первым | strike up a conversation ("And then on the same night, when we came back, we were on the same SeaBus again," says Stefan, "and this time there were a lot less people so it was really easy to pick her out and, and definitely was a lot of eye contact between the two of us." Still, neither were quite ready to strike up a conversation.  translink.ca ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | он зря заговорил об этом первый | he made the mistake of speaking of it first |
| obs. | первому заговорить | accost |