• Listen

  What it means

  Literally “to go like blood from a nose.” Describes something that progresses extremely slowly and painfully — like pulling teeth.

  Vocabulary

  • krew — blood
  • nos — nose

  Grammar note

  'Z nosa' uses the genitive of 'nos' after 'z' (from).

  Intermediate

Noticed a typo, a wrong translation, or anything that doesn't look right? We'd love to fix it — just let us know via the contact page. Thank you!