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Fat and Thin


Жена уроки музыки даёт, я портсигары приватно из дерева делаю.

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My wife gives music lessons, and I make cigarette cases privately out of wood.

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Коллежским асессором уже второй год и Станислава имею. A collegiate assessor these two years now, and I hold the Stanislas.

Жалованье плохое… ну, да бог с ним! The salary's poor… well, but never mind it!

Отличные портсигары! Capital cigarette cases!

По рублю за штуку продаю. I sell them at a rouble apiece.

The words in this sentence

жена́
wife (nom sg)
уро́ки
lessons (nom/acc pl) — урок
му́зыки
music (gen sg of музыка) — музыка
даёт
gives (3sg) — давать
я
I
портсига́ры
cigarette cases (pl) — портсигар
прива́тно
privately (arch.)
из
from, out of (+ gen)
де́рева
wood (n., n.) — дерево
де́лаю
I do, I make (1sg of делать) — делать

А. П. Чехов, «Толстый и тонкий», 1883 · sentence 19 of 33

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