Я46
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collVPpfv
fut,
gener. 2nd pers
sing (1st
var. )
Invar,
impers predic with быть* (2nd
var. )
fixed WO (1st
var. )) some word (combination of words, phrase
etc) is very difficult to pronounce
it's a (real) jawbreaker (tongue twister)
you can't (it's impossible to) get your tongue around ityou'd tie your tongue in knots trying to say it (to talk like that
etc).
here she'd find singing, there - weeping, further on - somebody gabbling away in some foreign language, further still-something that wasn't Russian and wasn't foreign either. You'd tie your tongue in knots trying to talk like that (3a).
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