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Une rencontre au marché
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Une rencontre au marché

An encounter at the market

Reading time
4 min
Total words
1,217
Unique words
450
Avg frequency
#175

Story

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. . ' . . , au , . .

, j' . "Lucie? Lucie, c' ?" . , . ' , . . . . .

"Mathieu?" . "Mathieu, c' ?" . . . , . Mathieu, l'. l' .

"'- ?" . ' . , . . " ? ?" ", . J' . J' , . , ." . ", . , ."

bonne . Mathieu ' . , , . . , ' . l'. . , .

. , , . , , . Mathieu c' belle . , c' belle . .

l', Mathieu . , . . . au l'. . , . ' '. l' . , l' ' .

" ?" . l'. . . . ", . -. ." ' au . .

, . " ," Mathieu. " . ." . Cette , ' . , souvenirs, cœur .

, , ' . C' l' .

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Words in this story

Curriculum
194 words
#Word
1êtreto be
2deof, from
3jeI
4avoirto have
5pasnot (in ne...pas negation)
7lethe (masculine singular)
8quethat, which, what
9lathe (feminine singular)
11tuyou (informal singular)
12una, an (masculine)
13etand
14ilhe, it (masculine)
15cethis, that, it (demonstrative)
17lesthe (plural)
18faireto do, to make
19allerto go
20enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun)
22çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)
23unea, an (feminine)
25toutall, every, quite, everything
26pouvoirto be able to, can
27direto say, to tell
29quiwho, which, that (relative pronoun); who? (interrogative)
30maisbut
31vouloirto want
32savoirto know (facts, how to)
33dansin, inside
34nouswe, us
35elleshe, her, it (feminine)
36meme, to me, myself (first-person singular object pronoun)
37bienwell, good, very
38siif; so (intensifier); yes (contradicting a negative statement)
41nonno, not
42avecwith
43plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus)
44monmy (masculine singular possessive)
45voirto see
47devoirto have to, must; duty
48moime, I (stressed tonic first-person pronoun)
49ouiyes
50suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre
53sehimself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun)
54commelike, as, such as, how
55venirto come
56quelquesome, a few, a little
57bongood, right, okay (adjective and interjection)
58icihere
59mamy (feminine singular)
60toiyou (stressed tonic second-person singular pronoun)
62luihim, her, to him, to her (tonic and indirect object pronoun)