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Adieu, madame Rochat

Adieu, Madame Rochat

Reading time
5 min
Total words
608
Unique words
273
Typical word
#189

Story

Aurélien Lyon Lausanne, . , . , , , . « ! ? » « ... . , . » « ! » .

On the staircase of an old apartment building, a small white-haired woman leans out of her doorway, smiling and waving, while a teenage boy carrying a big cardboard box up the stairs looks back at her, puzzled.

, . , , . Aurélien . « . . . » « , ? » « . » « , , . » . « , . , . »

Aurélien . . « ! , ? » « , . » , , .

, . , , : « , . » . . Aurélien . .

, Noémie, , . , : , ... Aurélien . Noémie , , . . « , », Noémie. « , . » « Lausanne, . . »

In a school hallway, a teenage girl leans forward with her cheek out, waiting, while the boy in front of her has already stepped back. Two other students laugh in the background.

, . « , , ? » Noémie . « ! , , . . , . » « ? » Noémie . « , . »

, Aurélien . . « , . » . « , . ... . . , , . . » . . « ! : , , . , . ? »

, Odette Rochat, , -- , . , : « , . . » « , . » « , . . »

, . « , Aurélien ! » « , Rochat. » . « ... ? » Aurélien souri. , . « . »

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217 words
# Freq Word
11êtreto be
22avoirto have
33deof, from
44jeI
55pasnot (in ne...pas negation)
66àto, at, in
77lethe (masculine singular)
88quethat, which, what
99lathe (feminine singular)
1010vousyou (formal or plural)
1111tuyou (informal singular)
1212una, an (masculine); one (masculine)
1313etand
1414ilhe, it (masculine)
1515cethis, that, it (demonstrative)
1616nenot (first part of negation)
1717lesthe (plural)
1818faireto do, to make
1919çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)
2020allerto go
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