Перебрали все возрасты, полы и породы лошадей, вспомнили гриву, копыта, сбрую…
Tap any word.
Show the English
They went through every age, sex and breed of horse; they called to mind the mane, the hooves, the harness…
Read aloud
Where it stands
И в доме, все наперерыв, стали изобретать фамилии. And in the house everyone, vying with one another, set about inventing surnames.
В доме, в саду, в людской и кухне люди ходили из угла в угол и, почёсывая лбы, искали фамилию… In the house, in the garden, in the servants’ hall and in the kitchen, people walked from corner to corner and, scratching their foreheads, searched for the surname…
The words in this sentence
- перебра́ли
- they went through, ran over (past pl) — перебрать
- все
- everyone, all (pl) — весь
- во́зрасты
- ages (nom/acc pl) — возраст
- полы́
- sex (n., m.) — пол
- и
- and; also, even
- поро́ды
- breed, stock (gen sg or nom/acc pl) — порода
- лошаде́й
- horses (gen/acc pl of лошадь) — лошадь
- вспо́мнили
- they remembered (past pl) — вспомнить
- гри́ву
- mane (acc sg) — грива
- копы́та
- hooves (nom/acc pl); of a hoof (gen sg) — копыто
- сбру́ю
- harness (acc sg) — сбруя
This is one sentence of «Лошадиная фамилия» — 56 sentences long, and the whole story reads like this: every word glossed where it stands, the English out of your eyeline until you ask for it. Free: the reader opens the first instalment with no account and the rest with a free account, and the page with the English under every line needs none at all.
Open «Лошадиная фамилия» in the reader Read it whole, English under every line