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Пропащая моя жизнь, хуже собаки всякой…

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My life is a lost one, worse than any dog's…

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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.

А еще кланяюсь Алене, кривому Егорке и кучеру, а гармонию мою никому не отдавай. And I send my greetings besides to Alyona, to one-eyed Yegorka and to the coachman, and don't give my concertina to anybody.

Остаюсь твой внук Иван Жуков, милый дедушка приезжай». I remain your grandson Ivan Zhukov, dear grandfather do come.”

The words in this sentence

пропа́щая
hopeless, good-for-nothing (nom f adj) — пропащий
моя́
my (f nom sg of мой) — мой
жизнь
life (nom/acc sg)
ху́же
worse (comparative)
соба́ки
dog (gen sg); dogs (nom pl) — собака
вся́кой
every, any (gen/dat/instr/prep f sg) — всякий

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 57 of 68

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