Ах, какая то была страшная ночь, бабушка!
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Ah, what a dreadful night that was, granny!
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— Точно так же в холодную ночь грелся у костра апостол Петр, — сказал студент, протягивая к огню руки. “In just this way the Apostle Peter warmed himself at a fire on a cold night,” said the student, stretching out his hands to the flames.
— Значит, и тогда было холодно. “So it was cold then too.
До чрезвычайности унылая, длинная ночь! An exceedingly dismal, long night!”
The words in this sentence
- ах
- ah! oh! (interjection)
- кака́я
- what, which (nom sg f) — какой
- то
- that; then (если... то)
- была́
- was (past f of быть) — быть
- стра́шная
- terrible, frightful (nom sg f) — страшный
- ночь
- night (nom/acc sg)
- ба́бушка
- grandmother (nom sg)
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