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Vanka


Пожалей ты меня сироту несчастную, а то меня все колотят и кушать страсть хочется, а скука такая, что и сказать нельзя, всё плачу.

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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.

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«Приезжай, милый дедушка, — продолжал Ванька, — Христом богом тебя молю, возьми меня отседа. “Do come, dear grandfather,” Vanka went on, “by Christ our God I beg you, take me away from here.

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.

Пропащая моя жизнь, хуже собаки всякой… My life is a lost one, worse than any dog's…

The words in this sentence

пожале́й
have pity (imper) — пожалеть
ты
you (informal)
меня́
me (gen/acc of я) — я
сироту́
orphan (acc sg) — сирота
несча́стную
unhappy, wretched (acc f sg) — несчастный
а
and, but (conjunction)
то
for, as it is (in а то) (conj.)
все
everyone, all (pl) — весь
коло́тят
they beat, pound (3pl) — колотить
и
and; also, even
ку́шать
to eat (polite/arch.)
страсть
terribly, awfully (adv., colloq.)
хо́чется
one feels like, wants (impersonal) — хотеться
ску́ка
boredom, tedium (nom sg)
така́я
such (f nom) — такой
что
that (conj.)
и
too, also, even (particle)
сказа́ть
to say, tell (infinitive)
нельзя́
one cannot, it is forbidden
все
all the time, always (adv.) — весь
пла́чу
I cry, weep (1sg of плакать) — плакать

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 55 of 68

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