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The Death of a Clerk


Ни одного слова путного не сказал.

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He didn't say a single sensible word.

Where it stands

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

Я извинялся, да он как-то странно… I did apologize, but he was somehow strange…

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

The words in this sentence

ни
not a single; nor (negative particle)
одного́
one (gen/acc m/n of один) — один
сло́ва
word (gen sg) / words (nom pl слова́) — слово
пу́тного
sensible, worthwhile (gen/acc m) — путный
не
not
сказа́л
he said (past m of сказать, to say) — сказать

А. П. Чехов, «Смерть чиновника», 1883 · sentence 27 of 46

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