Yes, I bargained, and they won't take a kopek less.
I wanted twenty kopeks to give to a poor pilgrim; I sent my son to borrow them from some one; he brought the pilgrim a twenty-kopek piece, and told me that he had borrowed it from the cook.
A few days afterwards some more pilgrims arrived, and again I was in want of a twenty-kopek piece.
But if I am a good man, my goodness cannot pause at a twenty-kopek piece, nor at ten rubles, nor at ten thousand; it is impossible to be a little bit of a good man.
I said: "I borrowed a twenty-kopek piece from you, so here is a ruble.
The old man exhibited in his hand two three-kopek pieces and one kopek.
I rode up to him, and there I saw a five-kopek wax candle was stuck on the cross-bar and burning, and the wind did not blow it out.
Did you know he hasn't got a kopek to his name, didn't you?
But you--you throw away every kopek you've got and then you steal her like you'd steal a sack of meal.
She returned to the cupboard, but suddenly blushed at the thought of having grudged the ten-kopek piece, and telling Lukerya to cut a slice of bread, went upstairs again to fetch it.
I began to go about the town as a buffoon, to get money, a kopek at a time, to make a fool of myself, to tell funny stories, and play all sorts of tricks.
You see, we're trading and trading, my boy, but there's not a kopek of profit in it.
The old man showed him in his hand two three-kopek pieces and a single kopek.
Every kopek, every bit of produce, was entered in twenty books, and on checking up he would find the total either half a kopek behind, or a whole kopek ahead.
Porfiry Vladimirych makes believe he does not know, although he figured out everything to a kopek long ago.
And everything depended here on overpayments and underpayments assumed arbitrarily, each overpaid or underpaid kopek served as a pretext for remodelling the entire edifice, which thus passed through endless changes.
Now is the time, friend, to wear warm clothes; but yesterday I pawned my last shawl for a twenty-kopek piece.
If an unruly member presumes to intervene with a lower bid, with the object of monopolizing the job out of turn, he is promptly squelched, and, though his bid may be allowed to stand, the man whose kopek we have drawn must do the work.
I sent a letter with a ten-kopek stamp on it to the post town, twelve versts distant.
The document was then furnished with the regulation eighty-kopek stamp (worth at that time about thirty-seven cents), and the business was concluded.
And not one kopekwill I abate of my just price, yay Bogu!
He would not take a kopek from any one unless he were justly entitled to it.
I positively had not a kopek in change; but not even a Russian beggar would believe that.
When we tired of that, I gave the nun a kopek for the entertainment she had unconsciously afforded, and thanked the policeman, after which the policeman and I left the good nun sitting stolidly at the receipt of custom.
The country postmaster, who had seen nothing but the old issues, carefully removed my stamp and sent it back to me, replacing it with a seven-kopek stamp and a three-kopek stamp.
Like the usurer hard hearted, For his last kopek in quest, Coffer, cupboard both he opens, Breaks the lock of case and chest.
Come again to-morrow, and in the meantime take this ten-kopek piece.
He pulled a twenty-kopek piece from his pocket, gave it to the merchant, took the portrait under his arm, and carried it home.
On the way thither, he remembered that the twenty-kopek piece he had given for it was his last.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kopek" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
