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Words of the Brothers Karamazov · 83 headwords

Each word with its meanings, its forms, and the lines it stands in.

эвклидовский

Euclidean 4 times

эвклидовский, эвклидовского, эвклидовскому, эвклидовская

adjective, nominative, masculine, singular; adjective, genitive, masculine, singular; adjective, dative, masculine, singular

Ivan's shorthand for logic bound by earthly, three-dimensional reason — as opposed to a higher, non-Euclidean understanding.

Эзоп

Aesop once

Езопу

"Ezop" (Aesop) is Fyodor Pavlovich's mocking nickname for Grigory (not Smerdyakov) — the context is Ivan worrying that Grigory, whom he just pulled off Dmitri, could easily be killed.

экипаж

carriages; carriage; their carriages 7 times

экипажах, экипажи, экипаже, экипаж

noun, locative, masculine, plural; noun, accusative, masculine, plural; noun, locative, masculine, singular

экой

what a; what; What a 13 times

экой, Экой

adjective, nominative, masculine, singular; determiner, nominative, masculine, singular; determiner, exclamative, nominative, masculine, singular

'Экой' is an archaic/folk exclamatory determiner ('what a...!').

эксцентрический

eccentric 3 times

эксцентрический, эксцентрическая, эксцентрических

adjective, accusative, masculine, singular; adjective, nominative, feminine, singular; adjective, genitive, plural

элемент

element; elements; of the elements 8 times

элементы, элементов, элементе, элемент, элемента, элементам

noun, nominative, masculine, plural; noun, genitive, masculine, plural; noun, locative, masculine, singular

эпидерма

the very skin once

эпидермы

Mock-scientific for "to the skin" — i.e. utterly astonished.

эпоха

of the age; age 3 times

эпохи

эстафет

a courier twice

эстафет

noun, accusative, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, singular

19th-c. Russian had both a feminine (эстафета) and a masculine (эстафет) borrowing of the same word for "express courier/dispatch"; this is the masculine variant used as a direct object, not a mangled accusative of эстафета (whose real accusative would be эстафету).

этакий

such a; such; the likes of these 39 times

этаких, этакую, этакие, этакой, этакая, этаким, этакому, этакого and 7 more

adjective, accusative, feminine, singular; adjective, genitive, plural; determiner, instrumental, masculine, singular

этап

etape twice

этапе, этапа

noun, locative, masculine, singular; noun, genitive, masculine, singular

“Этап” names a staging post where convicts under escort halted on the overland route to Siberian exile.

этот

this; that; these 1949 times

этот, эти, эту, этой, эта, этих, этого, это and 15 more

determiner, accusative, feminine, singular; determiner, nominative, masculine, singular; determiner, accusative, masculine, singular

эту stands alone here as 'this one' (elliptical for 'эту женщину'), object of на, not a determiner of глядел.

эфика

Ethics; ethics 4 times

Эфика, эфика, эфикой

noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, instrumental, feminine, singular

Mitya's mangled pronunciation of этика ("ethics").

эшафот

the scaffold; a scaffold; scaffold 8 times

эшафот, эшафоте, эшафотом, эшафоту, эшафота

noun, locative, masculine, singular; noun, accusative, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, singular

Seen once or twice

Эвклид

Euclid once

эвклидов

Euclidean twice

эвона

well now; look twice

эге

hey now; Aha twice

эгоизм

egoism twice

эгоистический

selfish once

эдак

at this rate once

эдакий

that sort of once

эзоп

Aesop once

эк

what a; my! twice

эка

what once

экзамен

examination once

экземпляр

copy once

эконом

thrifty one once

экономизировать

economizing once

экспансивничать

to gush once

эксплуатировать

to exploit once

экстазный

ecstatic once

экстракт

extract once

экстренный

urgent twice

эксцентрик

eccentric once

элегантный

elegant once

эманация

emanation once

эмансипация

emancipation once

эмансипироваться

emancipate herself once

эманципация

emancipation once

эмблема

emblem; an emblem twice

энергический

energetic once

энергично

forcefully once

энергия

energy twice

эпиграмма

epigrams; an epigram twice

эпизодный

episodic once

эпилептический

epileptic once

эпилог

an epilogue once

эпитафия

epitaph once

эпитимия

penance once

эполет

epaulets once

эра

era once

эскапад

an escapade once

эскапада

escapade once

эстетика

aesthetics once

эстетический

aesthetic twice

эстрада

the dais once

этикет

decorum; ceremony twice

это-то

this; very twice

эфир

the ether once

эффектный

dramatic once

The particulars

The words
Every word of the text, parsed: its headword, its form and its meaning in the line. Source text: public domain (Fyodor Dostoevsky, d. 1881; Russian from the Nauka academic edition via ru.wikisource).
Translation
Public-domain Russian (Dostoevsky, d. 1881). Translation © 2026 1732 Studios.
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Two whoopie pies and a pine. An inside joke.