Chapter 5 of Red love is here in full — 589 sentences across 118 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
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Chapter 5 of Red love is here in full — 589 sentences across 118 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya. "Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade. I don't care about the case against me now. Let them ruin me. Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
Chapter 5 of Red love is here in full — 589 sentences across 118 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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dearly loved
From this reading “"Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.”
a friend who is frequently in the company of another
From this reading “"Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.”
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading “Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.”
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading “Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.”
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading “Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.”
a brief written record
From this reading “Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.”
an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
From this reading “Let them ruin me.”
plural of “torment” — unbearable physical pain
From this reading “Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
touching and pressing; in opposition to
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
dearly loved
From this reading "Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.
inflected form of “bring” — take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
an occurrence of something
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
a friend who is frequently in the company of another
From this reading "Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
a person who keeps watch over something or someone
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading Let them ruin me.
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading "Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.
a brief written record
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
and nothing more
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
From this reading Let them ruin me.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading I don't care about the case against me now.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading Let them ruin me.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
plural of “torment” — unbearable physical pain
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading "Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Early that morning a Red Guard brought her a note from Volodya.
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading "Vasya, my wife, my beloved comrade.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Only one thought torments me, maddens me--that I might lose you.
Chapter 5 of Red love by A. (Aleksandra) Kollontai holds 589 sentences, grouped into 118 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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