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The Death of a Clerk


Я извинялся, да он как-то странно…

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I did apologize, but he was somehow strange…

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— То-то вот и есть! — That's just the trouble!

Ни одного слова путного не сказал. He didn't say a single sensible word.

Да и некогда было разговаривать. And besides, there was no time to talk.

The words in this sentence

я
I
извиня́лся
apologized (past m of извиняться) — извиняться
да
yes; and
он
he
ка́к-то
somehow; namely, such as
стра́нно
strangely; it is strange

А. П. Чехов, «Смерть чиновника», 1883 · sentence 26 of 46

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