Can you read «Толстый и тонкий»?
Below are 49 words of «Толстый и тонкий» — 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.) | ||
| emphatic particle | ||
| that; then (pron./conj.) | ||
| to understand (v., impf.) | ||
| to go out; turn out (v., pf.) | ||
| hand, arm (n., f.) | ||
| to exclaim (v., pf.) | ||
| to meet each other (v., pf.) | ||
| childhood (n., n.) | ||
| to see, catch sight of (v., pf.) | ||
| eye (n., m.) | ||
| to approach, come up (v., pf.) | ||
| a bit closer (adv.) | ||
| two (num.) | ||
| long (adj.) | ||
| in, into (prep.) | ||
| pleasantly; it is pleasant (adv.) | ||
| ruble (n., m.) | ||
| to have (v., impf.) | ||
| star (n., f.) | ||
| bad (adj.) | ||
| piece, thing; trick (n., f.) | ||
| Lutheran woman (n.) | ||
| to stun, dumbfound (v., pf.) | ||
| to be amazed (v., pf.) | ||
| tee-hee, sir (interj.) | ||
| tall, high (adj.) | ||
| probably, I daresay (particle) | ||
| gracious, merciful (adj.) | ||
| farewell, parting (n., n.) | ||
| head clerk, section chief (n., m., arch.) | ||
| a bit higher (adv.) | ||
| to direct, fix (gaze) (v., pf.) | ||
| to peep out (v., impf.) | ||
| respectful, deferential (adj.) | ||
| iron (adj.) | ||
| cardboard box, hatbox (n.) | ||
| gymnasium pupil (n., m.) | ||
| excellent (adj.) | ||
| moisture (n., f.) | ||
| orange blossom (n., from French) | ||
| three times, thrice (adv.) | ||
| wretched little soul (n., pej.) | ||
| to burn through (v., pf.) | ||
| to twist, contort (v., pf.) | ||
| to narrow, shrink (v., pf.) | ||
| small button (n., f.) | ||
| acid; sourness (n.) | ||
| tee-hee-hee (interj.) |
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, «Толстый и тонкий» holds 511 running words and 269 distinct lemmas, and at 1,000 known words 39.5% 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.
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