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полти́нник • (poltínnik) m inan (genitive полти́нника, nominative plural полти́нники, genitive plural полти́нников)
- fifty copecks
1925, Михаил Булгаков, chapter 2, in Собачье сердце; English translation from Avril Pyman, transl., Heart of a Dog, Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1990:— Хочу предложить вам, — тут женщина из-за пазухи вытащила несколько ярких и мокрых от снега журналов, — взять несколько журналов в пользу детей Германии. По полтиннику штука.- — Xoču predložitʹ vam, — tut ženščina iz-za pazuxi vytaščila neskolʹko jarkix i mokryx ot snega žurnalov, — vzjatʹ neskolʹko žurnalov v polʹzu detej Germanii. Po poltinniku štuka.
- "Would like to ask you," at this point the woman pulled out of her coat-front a few brightly coloured journals, still damp from the snow, "to take a few journals sold for the benefit of German children. 50 kopecks each."
- fifty-copeck piece
- (colloquial) fifty-ruble note or coin
- (colloquial) age of fifty
- (colloquial) a fifty (e.g. a 50 mm lens, a model 50 automobile, etc.)
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