У меня у самого брат в жандармах… ежели хотите знать…
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I’ve a brother of my own in the gendarmes… if you want to know…”
Where it stands
У него в законе сказано… It is laid down in his law…
Нынче все равны… Nowadays everyone is equal…
The words in this sentence
- у
- at, by; belonging to
- меня́
- me (gen/acc of я) — я
- само́го
- himself; the very (gen/acc sg) — самый
- брат
- brother (nom sg)
- в
- in, into
- жанда́рмах
- gendarmes (prep pl) — жандарм
- е́жели
- if (archaic/colloquial for если)
- хоти́те
- you want (2pl) — хотеть
- знать
- to know (inf); knowing, evidently (colloq)
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