Все домашние — жена, дети, прислуга, даже поварёнок Петька предлагали каждый своё средство.
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The whole household — his wife, the children, the servants, even Petka the kitchen boy — each proposed a remedy of his own.
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Он поковырял в зубе, прописал хину, но и это не помогло. He poked about in the tooth, prescribed quinine, but that did not help either.
На предложение вырвать больной зуб генерал ответил отказом. To the suggestion that the bad tooth be pulled out the general answered with a refusal.
Между прочим и приказчик Булдеева Иван Евсеич пришёл к нему и посоветовал полечиться заговором. Among others, Buldeyev's steward Ivan Yevseich also came to him and advised him to try a cure by charm.
The words in this sentence
- все
- everyone, all (pl) — весь
- дома́шние
- household, family members (n., pl.) — домашний
- жена́
- wife (nom sg)
- де́ти
- children
- прислу́га
- servants, domestic help (nom sg)
- да́же
- even
- поварёнок
- kitchen boy, scullion (nom sg)
- Пе́тька
- Petka (name, dimin. of Пётр)
- предлага́ли
- offered, proposed (past pl) — предлагать
- ка́ждый
- each, every (nom m sg)
- своё
- one's own (n nom/acc) — свой
- сре́дство
- means, remedy (nom/acc sg)
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