Crime and Punishment — Page 8
The young man must have looked at her with a rather peculiar expression, for a gleam of mistrust came into her eyes again.
Der junge Mann muss sie mit einem ziemlich seltsamen Ausdruck angesehen haben, denn ein Schimmer des Misstrauens trat wieder in ihre Augen.
The old woman paused, as though hesitating; then stepped on one side, and pointing to the door of the room, she said, letting her visitor pass in front of her:
Die alte Frau hielt inne, als ob sie zögerte; dann trat sie zur Seite und deutete auf die Tür des Zimmers, ließ ihren Besucher an sich vorbei und sagte:
The little room into which the young man walked, with yellow paper on the walls, geraniums and muslin curtains in the windows, was brightly lighted up at that moment by the setting sun.
Das kleine Zimmer, in das der junge Mann trat, mit gelbem Papier an den Wänden, Geranien und Musselin-Vorhängen an den Fenstern, war in jenem Moment von der untergehenden Sonne hell erleuchtet.
But there was nothing special in the room.
Aber es gab nichts Besonderes in dem Zimmer.
Vocabulary
- junge
- Young; adjective describing youth or early age
- Mann
- Man; adult male person
- muss
- Must; third-person singular of modal verb müssen
- sie
- She, her, or they; personal pronoun
- mit
- With; preposition indicating accompaniment or means
- ziemlich
- Quite, rather; adverb indicating considerable degree
- seltsamen
- Strange, odd; adjective describing unusual or peculiar quality
- Ausdruck
- Expression; facial or verbal manifestation of feeling
- angesehen
- Looked at; past participle of ansehen, to look at
- haben
- To have; auxiliary or main verb of possession
- denn
- For, because; conjunction giving reason or explanation
- Schimmer
- Glimmer, trace; faint sign or hint of something
- Misstrauens
- Suspicion, distrust; genitive form of Misstrauen
- trat
- Appeared, entered; past tense of treten, to step
- wieder
- Again; adverb indicating repetition of an action
- ihre
- Her, their; possessive pronoun in accusative form
- Augen
- Eyes; plural of Auge, the organs of sight
- alte
- Old; adjective describing advanced age
- Frau
- Woman, Mrs.; adult female person or title
- hielt
- Held, stopped; past tense of halten, to hold
- inne
- Still, paused; part of innehalten, to pause or hesitate
- als
- As if, when; conjunction of comparison or time
- ob
- Whether, as if; conjunction introducing hypothetical clause
- zögerte
- Hesitated; past tense of zögern, to hesitate
- dann
- Then; adverb indicating sequence or consequence
- Seite
- Side, page; lateral direction or surface
- deutete
- Pointed, gestured; past tense of deuten, to point
- auf
- On, onto; preposition of position or direction
- Tür
- Door; movable barrier closing an entrance
- Zimmers
- Of the room; genitive form of Zimmer
- ließ
- Let, allowed; past tense of lassen, to let
- ihren
- Her, their; possessive pronoun in accusative masculine
- Besucher
- Visitor; person who visits another place or person
- an
- At, on; preposition of position or direction
- sich
- Herself, oneself; reflexive pronoun for third person
- vorbei
- Past, by; adverb indicating movement beyond something
- sagte
- Said; past tense of sagen, to say
- kleine
- Small, little; adjective describing small size
- Zimmer
- Room; enclosed space within a building
- gelbem
- Yellow; adjective in dative form describing color
- Papier
- Paper, wallpaper; thin material for writing or covering
- Wänden
- Walls; dative plural of Wand, interior wall surface
- Fenstern
- Windows; dative plural of Fenster, openings in walls
- war
- Was; past tense of sein, to be
- jenem
- That; demonstrative pronoun in dative masculine form
- Moment
- Moment; brief period or specific point in time
- von
- From, by, of; preposition of origin or possession
- untergehenden
- Setting; adjective describing a sun that is setting
- Sonne
- Sun; the star at the center of our solar system
- hell
- Bright, light; adjective describing luminosity or clarity
- erleuchtet
- Illuminated, lit up; past participle of erleuchten
- Aber
- But, however; conjunction indicating contrast or exception
- gab
- Gave, there was; past tense of geben, to give
- nichts
- Nothing; pronoun indicating absence of anything
- Besonderes
- Anything special; nominalized adjective meaning something remarkable
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