One sentence of «Le petit Chaperon rouge»
Un jour, sa mère ayant cuit et fait des galettes, lui dit : « Va voir comment se porte ta mère-grand, car on m’a dit qu’elle était malade.
One day her mother, having made and baked some cakes, said to her: “Go and see how your grandmother is, for I have been told that she is ill.
Where it stands
The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.
Porte-lui une galette et ce petit pot de beurre. »
Take her a cake and this little pot of butter.”
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Un | un | a, an; one (art./num.); l’un… l’autre — the one… the other; les unes… les autres — some… others |
| jour | jour | day (n., m.) — tous les jours, every day; tout le jour — all day long; ce jour-là — that day |
| sa | son | his, her, its (det.) — son, sa, ses; also le son, sound: à son de trompe; also bran (n., m.) — du son, rabbit bait |
| mère | mère | mother (n., f.); ma bonne mère — good mother, to an old woman |
| ayant | avoir | to have (v.); il y a — there is, there are; avoir beau + inf. — to do in vain; avoir peur — to be afraid |
| cuit | cuire | to cook, bake (v.) |
| et | et | and (conj.) |
| fait | faire | to do, make (v.); faire + inf. — to have (something) done; il se fit — there came; faire le mort — to play dead; se faire à — to get used to |
| des | des | some, any; of the, from the (de + les) (art./contr.) |
| galettes | galette | flat cake, griddle cake (n., f.) |
| lui | lui | him; to him, to her (pron.) |
| dit | dire | to say, tell (v.); on aurait dit — you would have said; se dire — to say to oneself |
| Va | aller | to go (v.); s’en aller — to go away, leave; aller + inf. — to go and…, be going to…; y aller de bon cœur — to throw oneself into it |
| voir | voir | to see (v.); se voir — to see oneself; voyons — let’s see; voyez-vous — you see |
| comment | comment | how; what! (adv.) |
| se | se | himself, herself, itself, themselves; each other (reflexive pron.); s’ also stands for si — if — in s’il, s’ils |
| porte | porte | door, gate (n., f.); also a form of porter — comment se porte… ? how is… ? |
| ta | ton | your (ton, ta, tes) (poss. adj.) |
| mère-grand | mère-grand | grandmother (n., f.) — Perrault’s word |
| car | car | for, because (conj.) |
| on | on | one, people, they, someone (pron.) |
| m | me | me, to me, myself (pron.) |
| qu | que | that, which, whom; than; how…! (conj./rel. pron.); ne… que — only |
| elle | elle | she, her; it (pron.) — elles, they, them (f.) |
| était | être | to be (v.); c’est — it is; also forms the past of some verbs: elle est venue — she came |
| malade | malade | ill, sick (adj.) |
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