Can you read «Шинель»?
Below are 49 words of «Шинель» — its own vocabulary, drawn evenly across the frequency ladder from the commonest words in the corpus to the rare ones. Mark the ones you could read in a sentence without help. The page then counts what the book would ask of you: how much of its running text you hold, and how many of its sentences would contain no stranger at all. Nothing you mark is sent anywhere; the page counts, and forgets when you leave.
Mark what you know
| Know it | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| yes; and (part., conj.) | ||
| to be able, can (v., impf.) | ||
| general (n., m.) | ||
| that (pron.) | ||
| to ask (v., impf.) | ||
| there (adv.) | ||
| master, landlord, host (n., m.) | ||
| today (adv.) | ||
| horse (n., f.) | ||
| to pass, go by (v., impf.) | ||
| some, a certain (pron.) | ||
| feeling, sense (n., neut.) | ||
| good (adj.) | ||
| (с лишком) more than, odd (adv.) | ||
| for a long time (adv.) | ||
| how much, how many (adv.) | ||
| to throw; abandon (v., pf.) | ||
| strongly, greatly (adv.) | ||
| to confess, admit (v., pf.) | ||
| police (n., f.) | ||
| to climb; reach into (v., pf.) | ||
| movement, motion (n., n.) | ||
| to reason, discuss (v., impf.) | ||
| strong (adj.) | ||
| defenseless (adj.) | ||
| avoidance (n., n.) | ||
| street watchman (n., m., arch.) | ||
| to let pass; miss (v., pf.) | ||
| to feel, sense (v., pf.) | ||
| to examine, inspect (v., pf.) | ||
| to flash, flit by (v., impf.) | ||
| audibly; one can hear (adv.) | ||
| tail (n., m.) | ||
| to open (of door) (v., pf.) | ||
| one and a half (num.) | ||
| inopportunely, out of place (adv.) | ||
| back of the head (n., m.) | ||
| to get used to (v., impf.) | ||
| majestic (adj.) | ||
| to cut (v., impf.) | ||
| to offend, hurt (v., impf.) | ||
| distant, far (adj.) | ||
| regiment (n., m.) | ||
| in vain (adv., arch.) | ||
| to expound, state (v., impf.) | ||
| weak-sighted (adj.) | ||
| reddish, ginger-tinged (adj.) | ||
| to press on, apply oneself (v., impf.) | ||
| to mock one's fill (v., pf.) |
What the count means
Reading research puts comfortable unassisted reading at roughly 95–98% of running words known; the argument is in the guide. Measured against the corpus's ladder, «Шинель» holds 10,007 running words and 2,314 distinct lemmas, and at 1,000 known words 12.7% of its sentences read without a single stranger — the full row, beside every other book on the shelf, is in Russian classics, counted.
Method
The sample is stratified by ladder rank: the seven thousand rungs are cut into bands, each band contributes up to seven of this book's own glossed lemmas at evenly spaced ranks, and the same words are asked of everyone. Your marks estimate how much of each band you hold; the bands weighted by their width estimate your depth on the ladder; the verdict is this book's own coverage and readable-sentence curves read at that depth. A short book may own no words in the deepest band, and the estimate then carries your last measured band forward. Proper names are not asked and not counted — a reader meets them and does not look them up. Every curve the verdict reads is published in the ledger and derives from the corpus itself, so the answer here and the numbers there can never disagree.
Other books ask differently — check yourself against the rest of the shelf.