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A Horsey Name


Помню, фамилия лошадиная, а какая — из головы вышибло…

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I remember the surname is a horsey one, but which — it’s been knocked clean out of my head…”

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Жеребцов нешто? Zherebtsov [stallion], perhaps?

Нет, и не Жеребцов. No, not Zherebtsov either.

The words in this sentence

по́мню
I remember (1sg of помнить) — помнить
фами́лия
surname, family name (nom)
лошади́ная
horse's, equine (f adj) — лошадиный
а
and, but (conjunction)
кака́я
what, which (nom sg f) — какой
из
from, out of (+ gen)
головы́
head (gen sg); also nom pl го́ловы — голова
вы́шибло
it knocked out (past n, impersonal) — вышибить

А. П. Чехов, «Лошадиная фамилия», 1885 · sentence 24 of 56

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