Вы меня извините, я человек, который работающий…
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You’ll excuse me, but I’m a man who is a working man…
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— начинает Хрюкин, кашляя в кулак. Khryukin begins, coughing into his fist.
— Насчёт дров с Митрий Митричем, — и вдруг эта подлая ни с того, ни с сего за палец… “About the firewood, with Mitry Mitrich — and all of a sudden this vile creature, for no reason on earth, goes for my finger…
Работа у меня мелкая. My work is fine, delicate work.
Пущай мне заплатят, потому — я этим пальцем, может, неделю не пошевельну… Let them pay me for it, because this finger, maybe, I shan’t be able to stir for a week…
The words in this sentence
- вы
- you (pl/formal)
- меня́
- me (gen/acc of я) — я
- извини́те
- excuse me, sorry (imperative pl) — извинить
- я
- I
- челове́к
- person, man (nom)
- кото́рый
- which, who (nom sg m)
- рабо́тающий
- working (pres act part, nom m) — работать
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