За ним шагает рыжий городовой с решетом, доверху наполненным конфискованным крыжовником.
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Behind him strides a red-haired policeman with a sieve filled to the brim with confiscated gooseberries.
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Через базарную площадь идёт полицейский надзиратель Очумелов в новой шинели и с узелком в руке. Across the market square walks the police superintendent Ochumelov, in a new greatcoat and with a little bundle in his hand.
Кругом тишина… All around, silence…
На площади ни души… Not a soul on the square…
The words in this sentence
- за
- behind, beyond; for (+ acc/instr)
- ним
- him (ins of он) / them (dat) after preposition — он
- шага́ет
- strides, paces (3sg) — шагать
- ры́жий
- red-haired, ginger (nom m adj)
- городово́й
- policeman, constable (nom sg)
- с
- with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
- решето́м
- with a sieve (instr sg of решето) — решето
- до́верху
- to the brim, right up (adv)
- напо́лненным
- filled (instr m/n sg past part.) — наполнить
- конфиско́ванным
- confiscated (inst m/n sg) — конфискованный
- крыжо́вником
- with gooseberries (inst sg) — крыжовник
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