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Chameleon


А я ведь и не знал!

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And I really had no idea!

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Where it stands

— Ишь ты, господи… — Well I never, good Lord…

Соскучились по братце… Been missing their brother…

Так это ихняя собачка? So this is their little dog?

Очень рад… Delighted, I'm sure…

The words in this sentence

а
and, but (conjunction)
я
I
ведь
after all, you know
и
even, too (particle)
не
not
знал
he knew (past m of знать) — знать

А. П. Чехов, «Хамелеон», 1884 · sentence 51 of 53

This is one sentence of «Хамелеон» — 53 sentences long, and the whole story reads like this: every word glossed where it stands, the English out of your eyeline until you ask for it. Free: the reader opens the first instalment with no account and the rest with a free account, and the page with the English under every line needs none at all.

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