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Fat and Thin


Если кто берёт десять штук и более, тому, понимаешь, уступка.

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If anyone takes ten or more, then, you understand, there's a discount.

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Where it stands

Отличные портсигары! Capital cigarette cases!

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

Пробавляемся кое-как. We rub along somehow.

Служил, знаешь, в департаменте, а теперь сюда переведён столоначальником по тому же ведомству… I served, you know, in the department, and now I've been transferred here as head clerk in the same branch of the service…

The words in this sentence

е́сли
if
кто
who
берёт
takes (3sg): озноб берёт — a shiver takes hold — брать
де́сять
ten
штук
pieces/items (gen pl) — штука
и
and; also, even
бо́лее
more
тому́
that (dat sg); тому назад: ago — тот
понима́ешь
you understand (2sg) — понимать
усту́пка
discount (n., f.)

А. П. Чехов, «Толстый и тонкий», 1883 · sentence 20 of 33

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