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The Death of a Clerk


Жена, как показалось ему, слишком легкомысленно отнеслась к происшедшему; она только испугалась, а потом, когда узнала, что Бризжалов «чужой», успокоилась.

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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 «someone else's», she was reassured.

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Придя домой, Червяков рассказал жене о своем невежестве. On reaching home, Chervyakov told his wife about his want of manners.

The words in this sentence

жена́
wife (nom sg)
как
how; as, like
показа́лось
it seemed (past n of показаться) — показаться
ему́
to him (dat of он/оно) — он
сли́шком
too, excessively
легкомы́сленно
thoughtlessly, frivolously
отнесла́сь
treated, related (past f) — отнестись
к
to, toward (+ dat)
происше́дшему
the event that occurred (dat m/n) — произойти
она́
she
то́лько
only, just
испуга́лась
got frightened (past f of испугаться) — испугаться
а
and, but (conjunction)
пото́м
then, afterwards
когда́
when
узна́ла
she recognized/found out (past f) — узнать
что
that (conj.)
бризжа́лов
Brizzhalov (name)
чужо́й
someone else's/strange
успоко́илась
she calmed down (past f) — успокоиться

А. П. Чехов, «Смерть чиновника», 1883 · sentence 23 of 46

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