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Fat and Thin


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!

Where it stands

— 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
went out (past pl) — выйти
в
in, into
таки́е
such (pl) — такой
вельмо́жи-с
grandees, dignitaries (-с polite, arch.) — вельможа

А. П. Чехов, «Толстый и тонкий», 1883 · sentence 26 of 33

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