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Russian
Etymology
про́сто (prósto) + на (na) + про́сто (prósto)
Pronunciation
Adverb
про́сто-на́просто • (prósto-náprosto)
- (colloquial) simply, just
1870, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin], “Подтверждение покаяния. Заключение”, in История одного города; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The History of a Town, Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws, 1980:Пе́ред всем, что напомина́ло весе́лье и́ли про́сто досу́г, он остана́вливался в недоуме́нии. Нельзя́ сказа́ть, чтоб э́ти есте́ственные проявле́ния челове́ческой приро́ды приводи́ли его́ в негодова́ние: нет, он про́сто-на́просто не понима́л их.- Péred vsem, što napominálo vesélʹje íli prósto dosúg, on ostanávlivalsja v nedouménii. Nelʹzjá skazátʹ, štob éti jestéstvennyje projavlénija čelovéčeskoj priródy privodíli jevó v negodovánije: net, on prósto-náprosto ne ponimál ix.
- Faced with anything resembling gaiety or even simple leisure, he stopped in perplexity. Not that these natural expressions of human life roused him to indignation – no, he simply did not understand them.