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The Malefactor


На каждый невод, почитай, штук десять…

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Reckon ten or so of them for every net…

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Where it stands

Невода у нас делает и господам продаёт. He makes seine nets hereabouts and sells them to the gentry.

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

The words in this sentence

на
on, onto; at
ка́ждый
each, every (nom m sg)
не́вод
dragnet, seine net (nom/acc sg)
почита́й
very nearly, I reckon (particle, colloq.) — почитать
штук
pieces/items (gen pl) — штука
де́сять
ten

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 52 of 73

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