Language through Literature

Vanka


Подумав немного, он умокнул перо и написал адрес:

Tap any word.

Show the English

After thinking a little, he dipped his pen and wrote the address:

Where it stands

Ванька свернул вчетверо исписанный лист и вложил его в конверт, купленный накануне за копейку… Vanka folded the covered sheet in four and put it into an envelope bought the day before for a kopeck…

The words in this sentence

поду́мав
having thought (gerund) — подумать
немно́го
a little, somewhat
он
he
умокну́л
he dipped the pen (past m; colloq./arch. for обмакнул) — умокнуть
перо́
pen; feather (nom/acc sg)
и
and; also, even
написа́л
wrote (past m of написать) — написать
а́дрес
address (nom sg)

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 61 of 68

This is one sentence of «Ванька» — 68 sentences long, and the whole story reads like this: every word glossed where it stands, the English out of your eyeline until you ask for it. Free, no account.

Open «Ванька» in the reader → Read it whole, English under every line →