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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | его колени подкосились | his knees gave |
| gen. | она остановилась, колени её подкосились | she stopped, her knees giving |
| gen. | подкосились колени | knees gave way (On the morning after a haemodialysis, while the patient was walking down the stairs of the unit, his knees gave way suddenly without apparent reason. 4uzhoj) |
| Makarov. | у неё колени подкосились | her knees failed her |