У генерала собаки дорогие, породистые, а эта — чёрт знает что!
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The General's dogs are expensive, pedigreed, but this one — the devil knows what it is!
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— Я и сам знаю. — I know it myself.
Ни шерсти, ни вида… подлость одна только… No coat, no looks about it… nothing but low breeding…
И этакую собаку держать?!.. And to keep a dog like that?!..
The words in this sentence
- у
- at, by; belonging to
- генера́ла
- general (gen/acc sg) — генерал
- соба́ки
- dog (gen sg); dogs (nom pl) — собака
- дороги́е
- dear, expensive (nom/acc pl) — дорогой
- поро́дистые
- pedigreed, thoroughbred (nom/acc pl adj) — породистый
- а
- and, but (conjunction)
- э́та
- this (f nom) — этот
- чёрт
- devil (чёрт) — черт
- зна́ет
- knows (pres 3sg of знать) — знать
- что
- what; that (conjunction)
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