Crime and investigation II (убийство, агент)

The Case File

B1 taught the street level — убийца (the murderer), поймать (to catch). This lesson moves to the case file: the crime as a noun, the accusation as a document, the people whose job the case is.

wordin the file
убийствоthe murder — the act, not the person
обвинениеthe accusation, the charge
агентthe agent
наркотикthe drug — usually plural, наркотики
вестьthe news, word of someone — пропасть без вести is to go missing
All the newspapers wrote about this murder.
Об этом убийстве писали все газеты.

Verbs Under Interrogation

Стрелять (в кого? во что?) is to shoot — imperfective, the activity. Лгать is to lie with words; its perfective is солгать. Признать is to admit — вину, ошибку, поражение — and with признаться the admission turns on the speaker.

Он стрелял в воздух. — He fired into the air. Свидетель лгал суду. — The witness was lying to the court. Он признал свою ошибку. — He admitted his mistake.

Связать

Связать is literally to tie (руки, верёвку) and figuratively to connect: связать факты — to connect the facts. The investigator does both in one shift.

The investigator connected these two facts.
Следователь связал эти два факта.

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