Друг, можно сказать, детства и вдруг вышли в такие вельможи-с!
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A friend, one might say, of my childhood, and suddenly grown into such a grandee, sir!
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— Я, ваше превосходительство… — I, Your Excellency…
Очень приятно-с! Most delighted, sir!
Хи-хи-с. Hee-hee, sir.
The words in this sentence
- друг
- friend; друг друга: one another
- мо́жно
- one may, it is possible
- сказа́ть
- to say, tell (infinitive)
- де́тства
- childhood (gen sg) — детство
- и
- and; also, even
- вдруг
- suddenly
- вы́шли
- to become, rise to be (v., pf.) — выйти
- в
- in, into
- таки́е
- such (pl) — такой
- вельмо́жи-с
- grandees, dignitaries (-с polite, arch.) — вельможа
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