Thread: How to translate - а держи то себе

Originally Posted by Ramil

There's something wrong with this sentence. It's wrong word order probably:

Дай мне, пожалуйста, (вот) это меню, а это держи ("возьми" would be better) себе.

Give me this menu please and take this one for yourself.

And when saying that you should actually point at the menu you want to take and hand the one you are giving away.

Yes, you're probably right, the sentence does look out of place. I took this sentence from Schaumm's Grammar as I did not quite understand it, but tried my best to translate. Guess I did not miss the mark by much.