Попадись этакая собака в Петербурге или Москве, то знаете, что было бы?
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If a dog like that turned up in Petersburg or Moscow, do you know what would happen?
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И этакую собаку держать?!.. And to keep a dog like that?!..
Где же у вас ум? Where are your wits?
Там не посмотрели бы в закон, а моментально — не дыши! There they wouldn't go looking into the law — in a flash: breathe no more!
Ты, Хрюкин, пострадал и дела этого так не оставляй… You, Khryukin, have suffered damages, and don't let this business drop…
The words in this sentence
- попади́сь
- should (such a dog) turn up (imper sg of попасться, used as a condition: попадись… — if … turned up) — попасться
- э́такая
- such a, what a (colloq, f) — этакий
- соба́ка
- dog
- в
- in, into
- петербу́рге
- Petersburg (prep) — петербург
- и́ли
- or
- Москве́
- Moscow (name, dat/prep sg) — москва
- то
- then (conj.)
- зна́ете
- you know (pres 2pl of знать) — знать
- что
- what; that (conjunction)
- бы́ло
- was (past n of быть) — быть
- бы
- would (conditional particle)
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