The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin — Page 6
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Old Brown carried Nutkin into his house, and held him up by the tail, intending to skin him; but Nutkin pulled so very hard that his tail broke in two, and he dashed up the staircase and escaped out of the attic window.
Alter Braun trug Nutkin in sein Haus und hielt ihn am Schwanz hoch, in der Absicht, ihn zu häuten; aber Nutkin zog so sehr stark, dass sein Schwanz in zwei Teile brach, und er stürmte die Treppe hinauf und entkam durch das Dachbodenfenster.
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And to this day, if you meet Nutkin up a tree and ask him a riddle, he will throw sticks at you, and stamp his feet and scold, and shout--
Und bis auf den heutigen Tag, wenn du Nutkin auf einem Baum triffst und ihm ein Rätsel stellst, wird er Stöcke nach dir werfen, und mit den Füßen stampfen und schimpfen, und rufen--
"Cuck-cuck-cuck-cur-r-r-cuck-k-k!"
"Cuck-cuck-cuck-cur-r-r-cuck-k-k!"
Vocabulary
- Alter
- Age or old man
- Braun
- The color brown
- trug
- Past tense of tragen; carried or wore
- sein
- To be; also his or its
- Haus
- A building where people live; house
- hielt
- Past tense of halten; held or stopped
- ihn
- Accusative pronoun referring to him
- Schwanz
- The tail of an animal
- hoch
- High, tall, or elevated in position
- Absicht
- A deliberate plan or intention to do something
- häuten
- To skin or flay an animal
- aber
- Conjunction expressing contrast; but or however
- zog
- Past tense of ziehen; pulled or moved
- sehr
- Adverb intensifying adjectives or verbs; very
- stark
- Strong, powerful, or intense in degree
- dass
- Subordinating conjunction introducing a clause; that
- zwei
- The number two
- Teile
- Parts, pieces, or portions of a whole
- brach
- Past tense of brechen; broke or snapped
- stürmte
- Past tense of stürmen; stormed or rushed
- Treppe
- A staircase or set of steps
- hinauf
- Directional adverb meaning upward or up there
- entkam
- Past tense of entkommen; escaped or got away
- durch
- Preposition meaning through or by means of
- Dachbodenfenster
- A window located in the attic of a house
- bis
- Preposition or conjunction meaning until or up to
- auf
- Preposition meaning on, onto, or upon
- heutigen
- Adjective form of heute; of today or current
- Tag
- A period of twenty-four hours; day
- wenn
- Conjunction meaning when or whenever or if
- Baum
- A large woody perennial plant; tree
- triffst
- Second-person singular of treffen; you meet or encounter
- ihm
- Dative pronoun referring to him or it
- Rätsel
- A puzzling question meant to be solved; riddle
- stellst
- Second-person singular of stellen; you pose or place
- wird
- Third-person singular of werden; will or becomes
- Stöcke
- Plural of Stock; sticks or canes
- nach
- Preposition meaning after, toward, or according to
- dir
- Dative second-person singular informal pronoun; you
- werfen
- To throw or hurl an object through the air
- mit
- Preposition meaning with or together with
- Füßen
- Dative plural of Fuß; feet or lower limbs
- stampfen
- To stamp or stomp with the feet forcefully
- schimpfen
- To scold, complain, or curse angrily at someone
- rufen
- To call out or shout to someone
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