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