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The Malefactor


Невода у нас делает и господам продаёт.

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He makes seine nets hereabouts and sells them to the gentry.

Where it stands

— С Митрофаном Петровым… — Mitrofan Petrov…

Нешто не слыхали? Surely you've heard of him?

Ему много этих самых гаек требуется. He needs a great many of these very nuts.

На каждый невод, почитай, штук десять… Reckon ten or so of them for every net…

The words in this sentence

невода́
dragnets (nom/acc pl) — невод
у
at, by; belonging to
нас
us (gen/acc/prep of мы) — мы
де́лает
makes, does (3sg pres) — делать
и
and; also, even
господа́м
to the masters, gentlefolk (dat pl) — господин
продаёт
sells (3sg) — продавать

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 50 of 73

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