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    Чё там зависли-то?

    Been watching the film 'Возвращение', trying to work out what's being said, but mostly resorting to some subtitles I found somewhere online...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZo5PnGHIGc
    At 2.13, a kid says (offscreen):-
    Чё там зависли-то?
    'Something is stuck there?' Maybe he's saying 'what's the hold up?'
    Is that what this means?

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    Yeah, "what's the hold up?" that is. Зависнуть is colloquial. When a computer freezes, we use зависнуть for example. A more literal meaning would be to hover, like a helicopter.
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    I thought so. Thanks again!

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    About computer both 'висит' & 'завис' can be said. I saw many times how native speakers had said 'hangs' instead of 'freezes', so we have a close correspondence here.
    "Невозможно передать смысл иностранной фразы, не разрушив при этом её первоначальную структуру."

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    Yep, that figures.

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