The Brothers Karamazov — Page 6
In the end, when four years later, Mitya, losing patience, came a second time to our little town to settle up once for all with his father, it turned out to his amazement that he had nothing, that it was difficult to get an account even, that he had received the whole value of his property in sums of money from Fyodor Pavlovitch, and was perhaps even in debt to him, that by various agreements into which he had, of his own desire, entered at various previous dates, he had no right to expect anything more, and so on, and so on.
Als schließlich Mitja vier Jahre später, die Geduld verlierend, ein zweites Mal in unsere Kleinstadt kam, um mit seinem Vater ein für allemal abzurechnen, stellte sich zu seiner Bestürzung heraus, dass er nichts zu bekommen hatte, dass es schwer war, überhaupt eine Abrechnung zu erhalten, dass er den gesamten Wert seines Vermögens in Geldbeträgen von Fjodor Pawlowitsch empfangen hatte und diesem vielleicht sogar noch etwas schuldete, und dass er durch verschiedene Vereinbarungen, in die er aus eigenem Willen zu verschiedenen früheren Zeitpunkten eingetreten war, kein Recht hatte, irgendetwas mehr zu erwarten, und so weiter und so weiter.
The young man was overwhelmed, suspected deceit and cheating, and was almost beside himself.
Der junge Mann war am Boden zerstört, argwöhnte Betrug und Täuschung und war fast außer sich.
And, indeed, this circumstance led to the catastrophe, the account of which forms the subject of my first introductory story, or rather the external side of it.
Und in der Tat führte dieser Umstand zu der Katastrophe, deren Schilderung den Gegenstand meiner ersten einleitenden Geschichte bildet, oder vielmehr deren äußere Seite.
But before I pass to that story I must say a little of Fyodor Pavlovitch's other two sons, and of their origin.
Bevor ich jedoch zu jener Geschichte übergehe, muss ich noch einiges über Fjodor Pawlowitschs andere zwei Söhne und ihre Herkunft sagen.
Vocabulary
- Als
- When; used to introduce a past time clause
- schließlich
- Finally, eventually, in the end
- vier
- The number four
- Jahre
- Years; plural of Jahr
- später
- Later, afterward in time
- die
- Definite article: the (feminine/plural)
- Geduld
- Patience; ability to wait calmly
- verlierend
- Losing; present participle of verlieren
- ein
- Indefinite article: a, an; also the number one
- zweites
- Second; ordinal form of zwei
- Mal
- Time, instance, occurrence
- in
- In, into; preposition of location or direction
- unsere
- Our; possessive pronoun, plural or feminine form
- Kleinstadt
- Small town, a town of modest size
- kam
- Came; past tense of kommen
- um
- In order to; around; preposition or conjunction
- mit
- With; preposition indicating accompaniment
- seinem
- His; dative form of possessive pronoun sein
- Vater
- Father; male parent
- für
- For; preposition indicating purpose or benefit
- allemal
- Once and for all; definitely, certainly
- abzurechnen
- To settle accounts, reckon finally with someone
- stellte
- Placed, turned out; past tense of stellen
- sich
- Himself, herself, itself; reflexive pronoun
- zu
- To, too, at; preposition or infinitive marker
- seiner
- His; genitive/dative form of possessive sein
- Bestürzung
- Dismay, consternation, shock
- heraus
- Out, heraus; directional adverb meaning outward
- dass
- That; subordinating conjunction introducing a clause
- er
- He; third-person singular masculine pronoun
- nichts
- Nothing; not anything
- bekommen
- To receive, get, obtain something
- hatte
- Had; past tense of haben
- es
- It; neuter third-person pronoun
- schwer
- Hard, difficult, heavy
- war
- Was; past tense of sein
- überhaupt
- At all, in general, altogether
- eine
- A, an; indefinite article feminine form
- Abrechnung
- Settlement of accounts, billing, reckoning
- erhalten
- To receive, obtain, maintain something
- den
- The; definite article accusative masculine or dative plural
- gesamten
- Entire, whole, total; adjective form of gesamt
- Wert
- Value, worth of something
- seines
- His; genitive form of possessive pronoun sein
- Vermögens
- Wealth, fortune, assets; genitive of Vermögen
- Geldbeträgen
- Sums of money, monetary amounts; dative plural
- von
- From, of, by; preposition indicating origin or possession
- empfangen
- To receive, welcome, accept something
- und
- And; coordinating conjunction
- diesem
- This; dative form of demonstrative pronoun dieser
- vielleicht
- Perhaps, maybe, possibly
- sogar
- Even, in fact; used for emphasis
- noch
- Still, yet, even; adverb of continuation
- etwas
- Something, somewhat, a little
- schuldete
- Owed; past tense of schulden
- durch
- Through, by means of; preposition
- verschiedene
- Various, different, several
- Vereinbarungen
- Agreements, arrangements, understandings
- aus
- Out of, from; preposition of origin
- eigenem
- Own; dative form of adjective eigen
- Willen
- Will, volition; dative of Wille
- verschiedenen
- Various, different; declined form of verschieden
- früheren
- Earlier, former, previous; declined adjective
- Zeitpunkten
- Points in time, moments; dative plural
- eingetreten
- Entered into, occurred; past participle of eintreten
- kein
- No, not a, none; negative article
- Recht
- Right, law; entitlement or legal concept
- irgendetwas
- Anything, something; indefinite pronoun
- mehr
- More, anymore; comparative adverb
- erwarten
- To expect, anticipate something
- so
- So, thus, in this way
- weiter
- Further, onward, continue; adverb of continuation
- Der
- The; definite article masculine nominative
- junge
- Young; adjective describing youth
- Mann
- Man; adult male person
- am
- At the, on the; contraction of an dem
- Boden
- Floor, ground, soil, bottom
- zerstört
- Destroyed, devastated; past participle of zerstören
- argwöhnte
- Suspected, was suspicious; past tense of argwöhnen
- Betrug
- Fraud, deception, swindle
- Täuschung
- Deception, illusion, misleading
- fast
- Almost, nearly
- außer
- Except, besides, out of; preposition
- Und
- And; coordinating conjunction
- der
- The; definite article or relative pronoun
- Tat
- Act, deed, action; in der Tat means indeed
- führte
- Led, caused; past tense of führen
- dieser
- This; demonstrative pronoun or article
- Umstand
- Circumstance, condition, fact
- Katastrophe
- Catastrophe, disaster, calamity
- deren
- Whose, of which; genitive relative pronoun
- Schilderung
- Description, portrayal, account of events
- Gegenstand
- Subject, object, topic of something
- meiner
- My; genitive or dative form of mein
- ersten
- First; ordinal number in declined form
- einleitenden
- Introductory, opening; adjective from einleiten
- Geschichte
- Story, history, tale
- bildet
- Forms, constitutes; third-person singular of bilden
- oder
- Or; coordinating conjunction offering alternatives
- vielmehr
- Rather, more precisely, or rather
- äußere
- Outer, external, outward; adjective form
- Seite
- Side, page, aspect
- Bevor
- Before; subordinating conjunction of time
- ich
- I; first-person singular pronoun
- jedoch
- However, yet, nevertheless
- jener
- That, that one; demonstrative pronoun
- übergehe
- Move on to, transition; first-person of übergehen
- muss
- Must, have to; modal verb of necessity
- einiges
- Some things, a few things, something
- über
- About, over, above; preposition
- andere
- Other, another, different
- zwei
- Two; the number two
- Söhne
- Sons; plural of Sohn
- ihre
- Their, her; possessive pronoun
- Herkunft
- Origin, background, descent of a person
- sagen
- To say, tell, state something
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