впотьмах

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Russian

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Pronunciation

Adverb

впотьма́х (vpotʹmáx)

  1. in the dark
    • 1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин , “По-родственному”, in Господа Головлёвы; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:
      Осторо́жно, чуть ступа́я, взошла́ она́ по ле́стнице и о́щупью отыска́ла впотьма́х две́ри, веду́щие в ко́мнаты.
      Ostoróžno, čutʹ stupája, vzošlá oná po léstnice i óščupʹju otyskála vpotʹmáx dvéri, vedúščije v kómnaty.
      Cautiously, treading very lightly, she climbed the stairs and felt her way in the dark to the door which led to his rooms.