Language through Literature

The Malefactor


Мы люди тёмные… нешто мы понимаем?

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We are ignorant folk… what should we understand?

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— Конечно, вы лучше знаете… — Of course, you know better…

The words in this sentence

мы
we
лю́ди
people (nom pl) — человек
тёмные
dark (nom/acc pl) — темный
не́што
really? perhaps? (colloq., arch.)
понима́ем
we understand (1pl) — понимать

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 55 of 73

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