— Так зачем же, чёрт тебя возьми, с советами лезешь, ежели забыл?
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“Then why the devil do you come pushing your advice at me, if you’ve forgotten it?”
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— рассердился генерал. the general grew angry.
— Ступай отсюда вон! “Be off with you!”
The words in this sentence
- так
- so, thus
- заче́м
- why, what for
- же
- emphatic/contrastive particle: but, however, indeed
- чёрт
- devil (чёрт) — черт
- тебя́
- you (gen/acc, informal) — ты
- возьми́
- take (imper of взять) — взять
- с
- with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
- сове́тами
- advice, counsels (instr pl) — совет
- ле́зешь
- to butt in, thrust oneself (v., impf.) — лезть
- е́жели
- if (archaic/colloquial for если)
- забы́л
- forgot (past m of забыть) — забыть
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