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A Horsey Name


Приказчик вышел в сад и, подняв к небу глаза, стал припоминать фамилию акцизного:

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The clerk went out into the garden and, raising his eyes to the sky, set about recalling the excise officer’s surname:

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прика́зчик
shop clerk, estate steward (nom sg) (arch.)
вы́шел
went out (past m of выйти) — выйти
в
in, into
сад
garden
и
and; also, even
подня́в
having raised (gerund) — поднять
к
to, toward (+ dat)
не́бу
sky (dat sg) — небо
глаза́
eyes (nom/acc pl) — глаз
стал
became; began (past m of стать) — стать
припомина́ть
to recall, call to mind (inf)
фами́лию
surname/family (acc sg) — фамилия
акци́зного
excise, tax-office (gen/acc m sg) — акцизный

А. П. Чехов, «Лошадиная фамилия», 1885 · sentence 29 of 56

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