Спросите на деревне, коли не верите…
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Ask in the village, if you don't believe me…
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Where it stands
— Зачем врать? — Why should I lie?
Без грузила только уклейку ловят, а на что хуже пескаря, да и тот не пойдёт тебе без грузила. Without a sinker there's nothing to be caught but bleak, and what could be poorer than a gudgeon — yet even he won't come to you without a sinker.
The words in this sentence
- спроси́те
- ask (imper pl of спросить) — спросить
- на
- on, onto; at
- дере́вне
- village, countryside (dat/prep sg of деревня) — деревня
- ко́ли
- if, since (arch./colloq.)
- не
- not
- ве́рите
- you believe (2pl of верить) — верить
This is one sentence of «Злоумышленник» — 73 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: the reader opens the first instalment with no account and the rest with a free account, and the page with the English under every line needs none at all.
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