Ежели ты живца или выполозка на крючок сажаешь, то нешто он пойдёт ко дну без грузила?
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If you put a live minnow or a crawler on the hook, is it going to go to the bottom without a sinker?
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— бормочет Денис, мигая глазами. — mutters Denis, blinking his eyes.
— Да нешто, ваше благородие, можно без грузила? — But how can a man do without a sinker, your honour?
Вру… Lying, am I…
— усмехается Денис. — Denis smirks.
The words in this sentence
- е́жели
- if (archaic/colloquial for если)
- ты
- you (informal)
- живца́
- live bait (gen/acc sg) — живец
- и́ли
- or
- вы́полозка
- big earthworm used as bait (acc/gen sg, dial.) — выползок
- на
- on, onto; at
- крючо́к
- hook, fish hook
- сажа́ешь
- to put, fix (on a hook) (v., impf.) — сажать
- то
- then (conj.)
- не́што
- really? perhaps? (colloq., arch.)
- он
- he
- пойдёт
- will go (3sg of пойти) — пойти
- ко
- to, toward (variant of к before clusters)
- дну
- bottom (dat sg of дно); ко дну = to the bottom — дно
- без
- without
- грузи́ла
- sinkers, net weights (nom/acc pl) — грузило
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