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Руки ведь не отвалятся от этого.

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Your arms won’t drop off from it.”

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— Ты вот не веришь в заговоры, а я на себе испытала. “You don’t believe in charms, but I’ve tried it on myself.

Хотя ты и не веришь, но отчего не послать? Even if you don’t believe, why not send it?

The words in this sentence

ру́ки
hands (nom/acc pl); gen sg = руки́ — рука
ведь
after all, you know
не
not
отва́лятся
will drop off (3pl pfv) — отвалиться
от
from, away from (+gen)
э́того
this (gen sg) — этот

А. П. Чехов, «Лошадиная фамилия», 1885 · sentence 17 of 56

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