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Теперь студент думал о Василисе: если она заплакала, то, значит, всё, происходившее в ту страшную ночь с Петром, имеет к ней какое-то отношение…

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Now the student was thinking about Vasilisa: if she had wept, then everything that had happened to Peter on that dreadful night must have some relation to her…

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тепе́рь
now
студе́нт
student
ду́мал
he thought (past m of думать) — думать
о
about, of; oh
Васили́се
to Vasilisa (dat/prep sg) (name) — василиса
е́сли
if
она́
she
запла́кала
she began to cry (past f) — заплакать
то
that; then (если... то)
зна́чит
means; so, then (3sg of значить) — значить
все
everyone, all (pl) — весь
происходи́вшее
what was going on (past act part, n) — происходить
в
in, into
ту
that (f acc) — тот
стра́шную
terrible, frightful (acc sg f) — страшный
ночь
night (nom/acc sg)
с
with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
Петро́м
Peter (name, instr sg; the Apostle Peter) — пётр
име́ет
has (3sg of иметь) — иметь
к
to, toward (+ dat)
ней
her (oblique of она after preposition) — она
како́е-то
some, a certain (nom/acc sg n) — какой-то
отноше́ние
relation; official memo (nom/acc sg)

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 45 of 52

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