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А еще кланяюсь Алене, кривому Егорке и кучеру, а гармонию мою никому не отдавай.

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And I send my greetings besides to Alyona, to one-eyed Yegorka and to the coachman, and don't give my concertina to anybody.

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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…

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

The words in this sentence

а
and, but (conjunction)
ещё
still, yet, more (= ещё)
кла́няюсь
to send regards, greet (v., impf.) — кланяться
Алёне
to Alyona (dat sg) (name) — алёна
криво́му
one-eyed (adj.) — кривой
Его́рке
Yegorka (name, dat/prep) — егорка
и
and; also, even
ку́черу
coachman (dat sg) — кучер
гармо́нию
concertina, accordion (acc sg, colloq.) — гармония
мою́
my (acc f sg of моя) — мой
никому́
to no one (dat of никто) — никто
не
not
отдава́й
give it back! (imper of отдавать) — отдавать

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 58 of 68

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