concept
Okh-tekh-te / etikh-tekh
okh-tekh-te
also: ох-тех-те, этих-тех
Varvara's habitual, semantically empty verbal filler, a sighing interjection scattered through her speech; Chekhov gives her the same nonsense sounds throughout the story as a fixed speech tic, kept untranslated here rather than replaced with an English equivalent.
Reading notes
- In the Ravine §33 Etikh-tekh
One of Varvara's two habitual, semantically empty verbal fillers (okh-tekh-te, etikh-tekh), a sighing interjection she carries throughout the story as a fixed speech tic, left untranslated rather than replaced with an English equivalent.