Crime and Punishment — Page 9
The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands--that was all.
Die Möbel, alle sehr alt und aus gelbem Holz, bestanden aus einem Sofa mit einer riesigen gebogenen Holzlehne, einem ovalen Tisch vor dem Sofa, einem Frisiertisch mit einem daran befestigten Spiegel zwischen den Fenstern, Stühlen an den Wänden und zwei oder drei billigen Drucken in gelben Rahmen, die deutsche Mädchen mit Vögeln in den Händen darstellten – das war alles.
In the corner a light was burning before a small ikon.
In der Ecke brannte ein Licht vor einer kleinen Ikone.
Everything was very clean; the floor and the furniture were brightly polished; everything shone.
Alles war sehr sauber; der Boden und die Möbel waren blank poliert; alles glänzte.
There was not a speck of dust to be seen in the whole flat.
In der ganzen Wohnung war kein Stäubchen zu sehen.
These two rooms made up the whole flat.
Diese zwei Zimmer bildeten die gesamte Wohnung.
"But the time is up for your last pledge. The month was up the day before yesterday.
„Aber die Zeit für Ihr letztes Pfand ist abgelaufen. Der Monat war vorgestern um.
Vocabulary
- Möbel
- Furniture; household items for furnishing a room
- alle
- All; every one of a group
- sehr
- Very; to a high degree
- alt
- Old; having existed for a long time
- aus
- Out of; made of; from
- gelbem
- Yellow (dative masculine/neuter form of gelb)
- Holz
- Wood; the hard material from trees
- bestanden
- Consisted of; were made up of
- Sofa
- Sofa; an upholstered seat for multiple people
- riesigen
- Huge; enormous in size
- gebogenen
- Curved; bent into a curved shape
- Holzlehne
- Wooden backrest; back support made of wood
- ovalen
- Oval; having an elongated rounded shape
- Tisch
- Table; a piece of furniture with a flat top
- vor
- In front of; before in position
- Frisiertisch
- Dressing table; a table with mirror for grooming
- daran
- On it; attached to it
- befestigten
- Attached; fastened or fixed to something
- Spiegel
- Mirror; a reflective surface for seeing oneself
- zwischen
- Between; in the space separating two things
- Fenstern
- Windows (dative plural); openings in a wall for light
- Stühlen
- Chairs (dative plural); seats with a back
- Wänden
- Walls (dative plural); vertical surfaces of a room
- billigen
- Cheap; inexpensive, of low quality or cost
- Prints; reproduced pictures or artworks
- gelben
- Yellow (declined form); of a yellow color
- Rahmen
- Frames; borders enclosing a picture or window
- deutsche
- German (adjective); relating to Germany
- Mädchen
- Girls; young female persons
- Vögeln
- Birds (dative plural); feathered winged animals
- Händen
- Hands (dative plural); the human hand
- darstellten
- Depicted; showed or portrayed in a picture
- war
- Was; past tense of sein (to be)
- alles
- Everything; all things combined
- Ecke
- Corner; the point where two surfaces meet
- brannte
- Burned; was lit; past tense of brennen
- Licht
- Light; illumination from a source
- kleinen
- Small; little (declined adjective form)
- Ikone
- Icon; a religious image or sacred object
- Alles
- Everything; all things (sentence-initial form)
- sauber
- Clean; free from dirt or mess
- Boden
- Floor; ground; the bottom surface of a room
- waren
- Were; past tense plural of sein (to be)
- blank
- Bare; shiny; polished and gleaming
- poliert
- Polished; made smooth and shiny
- glänzte
- Gleamed; shone; sparkled with reflected light
- ganzen
- Entire; whole (declined form of ganz)
- Wohnung
- Apartment; a residential dwelling unit
- kein
- No; not a; not any
- Stäubchen
- Tiny speck of dust; diminutive of Staub
- sehen
- To see; to perceive with the eyes
- Diese
- These; this (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)
- Zimmer
- Rooms; enclosed spaces within a building
- bildeten
- Formed; made up; constituted as a whole
- gesamte
- Entire; the whole; all of something
- Zeit
- Time; a period or point in time
- Ihr
- Your (formal); belonging to you (Sie form)
- letztes
- Last; final; most recent
- Pfand
- Pledge; pawn; deposit left as collateral
- abgelaufen
- Expired; run out; past its due date
- Monat
- Month; one of twelve divisions of a year
- vorgestern
- The day before yesterday; two days ago
- um
- At (time); around; about (preposition)
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