Fables de La Fontaine: A Selection with Introduction, Notes, and VocabularyMacmillan and Company, limited, 1923 - 209 pages |
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... noun it qualifies , and that a pronoun governed by a verb usually precedes it . No work could be better suited than La Fontaine's Fables to be a means for becoming familiarised with grammatical constructions . The Notes have , for the ...
... noun it qualifies , and that a pronoun governed by a verb usually precedes it . No work could be better suited than La Fontaine's Fables to be a means for becoming familiarised with grammatical constructions . The Notes have , for the ...
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... noun on which it depends : Du baudet en cette aventure Ou lui fit porter la voiture ( i.e. la voiture du baudet ) . ... Enseigne - moi de grâce De mon voleur , lui dit - il , la maison . ii . The adjective or participle qualifying a noun ...
... noun on which it depends : Du baudet en cette aventure Ou lui fit porter la voiture ( i.e. la voiture du baudet ) . ... Enseigne - moi de grâce De mon voleur , lui dit - il , la maison . ii . The adjective or participle qualifying a noun ...
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... nouns : en France , en grosseur , en faute - at fault ; il s'habille en berger — like a shepherd ; agir en loup — like a wolf . ii . With present participles : en voulant — whilst wishing ; en se saisissant - by seizing . N.B. - En in ...
... nouns : en France , en grosseur , en faute - at fault ; il s'habille en berger — like a shepherd ; agir en loup — like a wolf . ii . With present participles : en voulant — whilst wishing ; en se saisissant - by seizing . N.B. - En in ...
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... noun ) ; d'autres - others . superlative : un renard des plus fins -- one of the craftiest of foxes . viii . After certain verbs or adjectives : e.g. , Il pria le cheval de l'aider ; couverts , chargés de - with ; pleine de vrais amis ...
... noun ) ; d'autres - others . superlative : un renard des plus fins -- one of the craftiest of foxes . viii . After certain verbs or adjectives : e.g. , Il pria le cheval de l'aider ; couverts , chargés de - with ; pleine de vrais amis ...
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... noun to express purpose or use : l'étable à bœufs ; le panier au pain - the bread - basket . iii . In personal descriptions : la cigogne au long bec - with the . ; l'autour aux serres cruelles . .. iv . Of possession : Elle doit être à ...
... noun to express purpose or use : l'étable à bœufs ; le panier au pain - the bread - basket . iii . In personal descriptions : la cigogne au long bec - with the . ; l'autour aux serres cruelles . .. iv . Of possession : Elle doit être à ...
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Common terms and phrases
according adjective adverb all at animal arbre perché back beau BELETTE Brifaut called cat's-paw catch cerf chat cheval chien cigogne coup crafty dative different dit-il English equivalent Ésope fable first found friend generally gens give given good ground Guillot he said help Help one another home infinitive keep kind king know l'âne last leave lièvre life LINE lion little look loup made maître make master meaning means mourir name need negative neuter Notice noun obsolete old-fashioned word once one's order originally PAON people phrase poor preposition pres present pron pronoun queue Raton real subject referring renard right rule same sense share sing sire Socrate soon stick stroke subj subjunctive sycophante take tanches thing time tortoise translate translated trick turn used verb want whole wolf work ΙΟ