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Галактика - Последний летний день
+ Красная Площадь - Последний летний день

Тает лето как свеча... И осенняя печаль,
На исходе летних дней, постучалась вдруг ко мне,
Песней я её встречал.

The summer is melting like a candle... And autumn's sadness/grief
at the conclusion ("exiting") of summer days, gave a knock suddenly to me
With a song I met her ("her was meeting")

В этой песне блеск волны... И дыханье тишины,
Ливня шум и вязкий зной, крики чаек над водой,
В этой песне мне слышны...

In this song, glint/glinting of a wave... And breathing of silence,
Noise (Sound, clatter) of downpour and viscous heat, cries of seagulls above the water
I hear in this song ("In this song to me /are hearing/")

Припев:
Август, последний летний день,
Солнце о-у-о-у, дрожит в морской воде.
И дыханье затаив, я гляжу в глаза твои...

Refrain:
August, last summer day,
The Sun, ou, trembles in the sea water
And, with bated breath, I look at your eyes

Время подвести итог...
Как не жаль, всему свой срок,
Пенный след у самых ног, мыслей путанный клубок,
Полстраницы грустных строк...

It's time to draw a summary line...
Even if it's a pity, everything ends ("How-not-pity, to-all it's term(ination)")
Foamy trail right near the feet, confused ball (clew) of thoughts
half a page of sad lines

Осень а-а-а-а-а, рубиновый закат,
Осень, печальный взгляд назад.
Капель дробь стучит в стекло,
неужели всё прошло...

Autumn, a ruby sunset,
Autumn, a sad look/looking back/
Shot of (rain)drops thumps into the window/glass,
is it all really over?

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62 - шестьдесят два

sixty two

63 - шестьдесят три

sixty three

64 - шестьдесят четыре

sixty four

65 - шестьдесят пять

sixty five

Двадцать второй (22-й) урок

Twenty second lesson

УРОК НОМЕР ДВАДЦАТЬ ДВА (№22)

Lesson number twenty two (#22)

The devil knows

AK: Use this phrase (lit. "devil it/him knows")
if you want to say that something is really unknown.
It's a colloquial phrase. Don't use it in formal situations.

Anna, tell (pl.) me
what is wanting (lacking) [of what there-wants] for dinner.

Кухня грязная, Пётр Маркович,
нужно купить мыла (2).

The kitchen is dirty, Peter Markovitch,
(it is) necessary to buy some soap.

Какое там мыло!

AK: Word by word "What there's soap!".
It means something like "What kind of soap!"
Compare:

Какое к чёрту мыло!

lit. "What, to the devil, a soap", meaning "To the devil with the soap'

AK: before а coma is a must, since it joins two sentences.

Хлеб не свежий (4)
и у нас только полфунта.

The bread is not new [fresh]
and we have [with us (is)] only half a pound.

AK: "фунты" реально не используются больше в России.
Use "полкило" - half a kilogram for metric measurements.

how much money (must I) give you,
[how much give you of money], Anna?

AK: meaning is "how much money do you need?"

Paying [to] the baker is necessary at once (now),

as for [but] the butcher, (he is) sometimes kind (amiable).

How much costs olive [Provençal] oil and vinegar?

AK: meaning is "today we also need..."

AK: lit. "buy, what lacks"

купите - buy!
купите - you pl. will buy

остаётся ; сколько стоит ? иногда

достаточно; недостаёт; чёрт (чорт).

AK: недостаёт means "it is lacking of (to something or to someone)"

AK: купить refers to the future:
купить в будущем - to buy in the future

УПРАЖНЕНИЕ

У меня недостаточно денег,
чтобы купить, чего недостаёт.

AK: Word by word "how much at/on you money?"

AK: This means "I don't want to pay you right now".

Чёрт его знает, что это такое...

This table is dirty (masculine);
this bedroom is dirty (feminine);
this overcoat is dirty (neuter).

After the preposition к (or ко), which means towards, for, the dative is always used.
So обед becomes к обеду.

Чего is the genitive of что;
we have seen it in ничего, nothing (liter. :« not of a thing ».)

Мыло [мыла], soap, is one of the difficult words to pronounce well for a foreigner.
Double difficulty : ы and hard л.
Мыла, of the soap (or some soap), genitive of мыло.

Об обеде - about a diner
One more ending, indicating the «prepositional» case.
But let us only have a look at it, without further explanations.
The preposition о (об before a vowel) means : about.

Свежий (fresh), an adjective with a soft ending, like
хороший, good, третий, third, and последний, last (final).

Булочник, a baker; булочнику, to or for the baker, dative case.

Exercise, paragraph 4 :
Что такое? (lit. "What such?") is a very current phrase for :
What is the matter? what is up?

Tweested English Section

Do not rack your brain for no use when you come across anything new, like об обеде, о кухне.
Before you know how to drive a car, you must wait until you have grown familiar with the levers and pedals.
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