ежу понятно
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Transcription (the accent is shown in capital letters):
[ye-ZHU pa-NYAT-na]
Translation / meaning:
(lit.: it's clear to a hedgehog)
it’s obvious, it’s clear
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Я́сно да́же и ежу́ — Э́тот Пе́тя был буржу́й.
It's clear even to a hedgehog - This Petya was a bourgeois.
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