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The Death of a Clerk


Придя домой, Червяков рассказал жене о своем невежестве.

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On reaching home, Chervyakov told his wife about his want of manners.

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Жена, как показалось ему, слишком легкомысленно отнеслась к происшедшему; она только испугалась, а потом, когда узнала, что Бризжалов «чужой», успокоилась. His wife, as it seemed to him, took what had happened too lightly; she was only frightened at first, but then, when she learned that Brizzhalov was «a stranger», she was reassured.

The words in this sentence

придя́
having arrived (gerund) — прийти
домо́й
home, homeward
червяко́в
worms (gen/acc pl); or the surname
рассказа́л
he told, recounted (past m) — рассказать
жене́
to/about wife (dat/prep sg of жена) — жена
о
about, of; oh
своём
one's own (prep sg m/n) — свой
неве́жестве
ignorance (prep sg) — невежество

А. П. Чехов, «Смерть чиновника», 1883 · sentence 22 of 46

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