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The Death of a Clerk


Теперь не подумает, так после подумает!..»

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He doesn't think so now, but he'll think so later!..»

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— И говорить не хочет. And he won't even talk.

Надо бы ему объяснить, что я вовсе не желал… что это закон природы, а то подумает, что я плюнуть хотел. I ought to explain to him that I never meant it at all… that it's a law of nature, or else he'll think I meant to spit.

The words in this sentence

тепе́рь
now
не
not
поду́мает
will think (3sg) — подумать
так
then, in that case (conj.)
по́сле
after (+gen); afterwards

А. П. Чехов, «Смерть чиновника», 1883 · sentence 21 of 46

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