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Meaning: without

Pronunciation: [byehs]

Part of speech: preposition

Rank: #93 (see frequency list)

Why are you not wearing a coat?
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• Почему́ ты хóдишь без пальтó?
• Why are you not wearing a coat?
•  literal  Why do you walk without a coat?
• Мáльчик вырос без роди́телей.
• The boy grew up without parents.
• Он был человéком без при́нципов.
• He was a man without principles.
• Бéз толку егó cпрáшивать об э́том.
• It makes no sense to ask him about that.
•  literal  Without sense ask him about that.
• Я и без тебя́ прекрácно знáю, что найти́ рабóту тру́дно.
• I know it perfectly well without you, that it's difficult to find a job.
• Поспеши́: на часáх ужé без чéтверти три.
• Hurry up, it's a quarter to three already.
•  literal  Hurry up: on the clock it's three without a quarter already.
• Мы женáты без трëх мécяцев пять лет.
• We've been married for five years less three months.
• Все без исключéния вы́полнили задáние прáвильно.
• Everybody without exception did the exercise correctly.
• Без вас мы не смóжем начáть проéкт.
• We won't be able to start the project without you. (plural "you")
• Ветерáны смóгут купи́ть проду́кты без óчереди.
• The veterans will be able to buy food without waiting.
•  literal  The veterans will be able to buy products without queue.
• Ты устáл? Не без тогó.
• Are you tired? Yes, a little bit.
•  literal  Are you tired? Yes, not without it.
• У меня́ и без тогó мнóго рабóты, а тут ещë э́ти перевóды!
• I really have enough work already, and now I have to do the translations!
•  literal  I have enough work without it, and now these translations!
• Когдá они́ жени́лись, онá былá прócто без умá от cчáстья.
• When they married, she was simply crazy with happiness.
•  literal  When thay married, she was simply without mind from happiness.
• Он без концá повторя́ет однó и то же!
• He is repeating the same things on and on!
• Мы обойдëмся без вас!
• We'll do without you!

• без умá = nuts, crazy, enamoured
    literal  without mind
• без сил = flat-out
    literal  without forces
• без концá = on and on
    literal  without end
• без грошá = penniless
• без трудá = readily
    literal  without effort
• без зáпаха = inodorous
    literal  without scent
• без потéрь = lossless
    literal  without losses
• без поня́тия = clueless
    literal  without idea
• без рукавóв = sleeveless
    literal  without sleeves
• без движéния = motionless
    literal  without motion
• без сознáния = unconscious
    literal  without consciousness
• без следá = without a trace
• пропácть бéз вести = to be missing
    literal  disappear without news
• без глу́постей! = no nonsense now!
    literal  without stupidities!
• любóвь без взаи́мности = unrequited love, unanswered love
    literal  love without reciprocity
• ходи́ть без дéла = to idle, to trapse
    literal  to be going without work
• быть без средств = to have no funds, to be broke
• болтáть без у́молку = to yammer
    literal  to chat without silence
• без тогó = already
    literal  without that
• не без тогó = a little bit
    literal  not without that

• безобрáзный = ugly, hideous
• бездéльник = idler
• безалкогóльный = alcohol-free
• бездáрный = untalented, ungifted

• Без трудá не вы́тащишь и ры́бку из прудá.
• No pain, no gain.
•  literal  You cannot pull a fish out of the pond without work.
• Мир не без дóбрых людéй.
• There're many kind people in this world.
•  literal  The world is not without kind people.
• Нет ды́ма без огня́.
• Nothing is stolen without hands.
•  literal  There is no smoke without fire.
• Нет ху́да без добрá.
• Every cloud has a silver lining.
•  literal  There's no bad without good.

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