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«Приезжай, милый дедушка, — продолжал Ванька, — Христом богом тебя молю, возьми меня отседа.

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“Do come, dear grandfather,” Vanka went on, “by Christ our God I beg you, take me away from here.

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Пожалей ты меня сироту несчастную, а то меня все колотят и кушать страсть хочется, а скука такая, что и сказать нельзя, всё плачу. Have pity on me, a wretched orphan, for everybody knocks me about and I am terribly hungry, and the dreariness is such as cannot be told, I am always crying.

А намедни хозяин колодкой по голове ударил, так что упал и насилу очухался. And the other day the master hit me on the head with a last, so that I fell down and hardly came round.

The words in this sentence

приезжа́й
come, come visit (imper sg) — приезжать
ми́лый
dear, sweet, nice (nom m sg)
де́душка
grandfather, grandpa (nom sg)
продолжа́л
he continued (past m) — продолжать
Ва́нька
Vanka (name)
Христо́м
Christ (instr sg) — христос
Бо́гом
by God (instr sg) — бог
тебя́
you (gen/acc, informal) — ты
молю́
I beg, implore (1sg of молить) — молить
возьми́
take (imper of взять) — взять
меня́
me (gen/acc of я) — я
отсе́да
from here (dial. for отсюда)

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 54 of 68

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