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Ivan exclaims:

О, чёрт! Я опять забыл дома карточку!

We sometimes swear when something goes wrong. «Чёрт!» or «О, чёрт!» suits perfectly well for the situation.

В метро (мне) придётся купить жетон.

The verb придётся/приходится means that a person has to do something even though he or she doesn’t want to do it that much: necessity + unwillingness to do something

The reflexive verb придётся (singular action) or приходится? (regular action) we normally use with the Dative case. We don’t change the verb itself.

мне (the Dative case) + придётся + infinitive

Let’s also take a look at these verbs in the Past tense:

(In the Lesson 19 we have already seen the construction к + the Dative case of a pronoun or a noun).

«Сколько народу!», - says Ivan

We always use the Genitive case with the word сколько /how many, how much . You already know that the collective noun «народ» / «people» has the ending -а in the Genitive case, singular. Yet we can say both «народА» and «народУ» the last one is a more colloquial form.

Если я не очень спешу, по дороге я захожу выпить кофе, чтобы не заснуть на первой паре!

Ivan is talking about a «пара». Пара means a a double period class. At the university every lesson has a duration of two academic hours (2 per 45 minutes), that’s why it’s called «пара».