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[upthera44.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that people say "tochno" to mean something like "Definitely?" or "Are you sure?" For instance, if I'm telling someone my opinion about something, when I finish explaining, they might say "tochno?" Can someone give a good translation of this and also tell me in what different contexts it is used? Obviously "tochno" is also frequently used in the sense of saying "Yes, exactly" to affirm someone's answer (as in -"Kto pisal knigu Prestuplenie i Nakazanie?" -"Dostoevsky" -"Tochno."), but I'm more interested in this other use.

 

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[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

Ahem. "То ли Петр...".

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

There's an old (Chinese?) proverb, saying that even monkeys sometime fall from the trees. Nobody's perfect. ;)