
Un voyage difficile
A difficult journey
- Reading time
- 4 min
- Total words
- 818
- Unique words
- 303
- Avg frequency
- #146
Story
, Bernard . Marc, , . Hélène, , . Léo Sophie, , . . , . ? ' '.
", j' ' Bretagne," Marc. " Paul -. . ."
" Bretagne ? ? , Marc. , j' Rome," Hélène. "L'Italie, c' . C' . ."
Léo, , . ", j' . . ."
" ! !" Sophie. ", . Rome, c' ."
Marc . "Sophie, . Bretagne , c' . , . ."
", ! , c' Rome ! Rome !"
Hélène Marc. "Marc, -. Léo Sophie . . Bretagne, ."
Marc . . . . Léo . Sophie . Hélène . , ' . Léo.
Marc stays calm. thinks. thinks deeply. Nobody speaks. Léo plays with his phone. Sophie waits. Hélène waits too. In house, you cannot hear anything. Just Léo' phone.
"'," Marc . " Rome. Rome, Bretagne. Paul. C' , c' ."
"," says Marc finally. "We're going to Rome. before Rome, we spend three days in Brittany. We see Paul. ' my brother, it' ."
Hélène . " , . , . l' l'Italie."
Sophie . Léo . " ? , ?"
", . . , c' ."
Léo ' . ' ' . . C' .
, , Sophie Rome. Léo . Marc . Hélène l'Italie .
, . . . . Bretagne ', Rome . c' , .
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Words in this story
| # | Freq | Word |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | êtreto be |
| 2 | 2 | deof, from |
| 3 | 3 | jeI |
| 4 | 4 | avoirto have |
| 5 | 5 | pasnot (in ne...pas negation) |
| 6 | 6 | àto, at, in |
| 7 | 7 | lethe (masculine singular) |
| 8 | 9 | lathe (feminine singular) |
| 9 | 11 | tuyou (informal singular) |
| 10 | 12 | una, an (masculine) |
| 11 | 13 | etand |
| 12 | 14 | ilhe, it (masculine) |
| 13 | 15 | cethis, that, it (demonstrative) |
| 14 | 16 | nenot (first part of negation) |
| 15 | 17 | lesthe (plural) |
| 16 | 18 | faireto do, to make |
| 17 | 19 | allerto go |
| 18 | 20 | enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun) |
| 19 | 21 | onone, we, people (informal) |
| 20 | 22 | çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun) |
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