One sentence of «Le petit Chaperon rouge»
— Demeure-t-elle bien loin ? lui dit le loup.
“Does she live very far away?” said the wolf.
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Il lui demanda où elle allait.
He asked her where she was going.
The poor child, who did not know that it is dangerous to stop and listen to a wolf, said to him: “I am going to see my grandmother, and to take her a cake, with a little pot of butter, that my mother is sending her.”
“Oh yes!” said Little Red Riding Hood; “it is beyond the mill that you see right over there, at the first house in the village.”
“Well then,” said the Wolf, “I will go and see her too: I shall go by this path here, and you by that path there; and we shall see who gets there first.”
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Demeure-t-elle | demeurer | to stay, remain; to live (v.) |
| bien | bien | well; very, quite; indeed (adv.) — bien aise, very glad; bien autre chose — something quite different; bien plus — far more |
| loin | loin | far, far away (adv.); de loin — from afar |
| 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 |
| le | le | the (le, la, l’, les); him, her, it, them — as an object (art./pron.) |
| loup | loup | wolf (n., m.) |
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