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Chameleon


Ты отведёшь её к генералу и спросишь там.

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You'll take her round to the General's and ask them there.

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Что-то ветром подуло… There's a bit of a wind got up…

Знобит… It gives me the shivers…

Скажешь, что я нашёл и прислал… Say that I found her and sent her along…

И скажи, чтобы её не выпускали на улицу… And tell them not to let her out into the street…

The words in this sentence

ты
you (informal)
отведёшь
you will take (someone) there (2sg) — отвести
её
her, hers (gen/acc of она, = её) — она
к
to, toward (+ dat)
генера́лу
general (dat sg) — генерал
и
and; also, even
спро́сишь
you'll ask (2sg of спросить) — спросить
там
there

А. П. Чехов, «Хамелеон», 1884 · sentence 42 of 53

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