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The Malefactor


Спросите на деревне, коли не верите…

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Ask in the village, if you don't believe me…

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

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 56 of 73

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