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Их переговорная занята, мы сами зайдём в его кабинет.
Meaning
Their meeting room is occupied, we'll drop by his office ourselves.
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Breakdown of Их переговорная занята, мы сами зайдём в его кабинет.
мы
we
в
in / to (direction)
кабинет
office (private room, study)
их
their
Questions & Answers about Их переговорная занята, мы сами зайдём в его кабинет.
Why don't Их and его change their endings to match the nouns they describe?
Unlike words for 'my' or 'your', the third-person possessive pronouns его (his/its), её (her), and их (their) are completely unchangeable. They are actually the genitive forms of the personal pronouns 'he', 'she', and 'they'. So, even though переговорная is feminine and в кабинет is in the accusative case, их and его stay exactly the same.
переговорная looks like an adjective ending in -ая. Why is it used as a noun here?
Many Russian words for specific rooms are actually adjectives that act as nouns, with the word комната (room) implied but dropped over time. переговорная комната simply became переговорная (meeting room). You still decline it exactly like a regular feminine adjective.
Why is the short form занята used here instead of the full adjective занятая?
Why use сами for 'ourselves' instead of a form of the reflexive pronoun себя?