Macmillan's Progressive French Course. II. - Second Year ... |
Common terms and phrases
acquitted Adjectifs numéraux Adjectives Adverbs agree apples Avez-vous back become believe better bring call cold Compound Conditional conj Conjugation denoting derived Direct Object ending English esteemed fear Feminine finish first flor esc following friend give given going gone good great grudge hour house I live Imperative Imperfect Infinitive ions j'ai know last Latin Leçon Lesson m'en make Masculine masculine ending meaning mind mute naughty boy Negative Nouns one's order Participles Past Personal Pronouns Plural Prepositions Pres Present Indicative Preterite Pronouns pun iss punish punished reç receive received Reflective Regular reply reposé ée rested rested myself return rule show silent sing Singular speak spendthrift stand stay strong Subj Subjunctive syllable take Tenses thing think thou timbre-poste time understand used vend Verbs want wanting wish word work worth year
Popular passages
Page 48 - Une souris, trottant à l'aventure, Rencontre une tortue, et lui dit: « Ta maison, Triste prison, Doit te faire souvent maudire la nature. Vois d'ici mon palais ; j'y loge avec le roi ! » Notre amphibie * alors répond à l'insolente : « De mon petit réduit je me trouve contente II est à moi.
Page 33 - Traduisez : le mien le tien le sien le nôtre le vôtre le leur...
Page 63 - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush " ? — "Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras.
Page 28 - Bon, good; meilleur, better ; -le meilleur, the best. Mauvais, bad ; pire, worse ; le pire, the worst. Petit, little ; moindre, less; le moindre, the least.
Page 41 - Ah, je n'ai point de queue.'' "Ah, je n'ai point de cornes." •' Ingrats," reprit la taupe, "et vous avez des yeux !
Page 85 - ... do you like, to learn? 37. What do you like to take? 38. Who is with your mamma? 39. Who is with me? 40. Who has eaten the cake? 41. Who has taken the cream? 42. Who has taken my cake? 43. Louise has taken your cake. 44. You have eaten your cake. 45. Have you breakfasted well? LE VOISIN OBLIGEANT. Un paysan alla un jour chez son voisin pour le prier de lui prêter son âne. Ce voisin, n'étant pas disposé à le lui prêter, lui répondit: «Je suis bien fâché, mon cher, que vous ne soyez pas...
Page 90 - ... which you must renounce. 3. Conscience is a judge whose decisions must be respected. 4. I perceive in the distance an object the form of which I cannot distinguish. 5. He asked the king what he was thinking about. 6. He gives a pleasant turn to everything he says. 7. The first person is the one that speaks, the second is that to whom one speaks, the third is that of whom one speaks. 8. Stop ! said the soldier from whose hands the prisoner tried to escape. 53e Leçon. Pronoms Indéfinis. § 33B.
Page 75 - ... evil thereof. mettre au jour to give birth to, to bring forth. se mettre en colère (se fâcher) to get angry. se mettre au lit to go to bed. se mettre à table to sit down to table. .se mettre en tête to take it into one's head.