One sentence of «Le petit Chaperon rouge»
Le Loup, la voyant entrer, lui dit en se cachant dans le lit, sous la couverture : Mets la galette et le petit pot de beurre sur la huche, et viens te coucher avec moi.
The Wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself in the bed under the blanket: “Put the cake and the little pot of butter on the bread bin, and come and lie down with me.”
Where it stands
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Little Red Riding Hood undresses and goes to get into the bed, where she was very much astonished to see what her grandmother looked like in her nightclothes.
— Elle lui dit : Ma mère-grand, que vous avez de grands bras !
She said to her: “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Le | le | the (le, la, l’, les); him, her, it, them — as an object (art./pron.) |
| Loup | loup | wolf (n., m.) |
| voyant | voir | to see (v.); se voir — to see oneself; voyons — let’s see; voyez-vous — you see |
| entrer | entrer | to enter, go in, come in (v.); faire entrer — to get (something) in |
| 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 |
| en | en | in, into; while (+ -ing) (prep.); of it, of them, some (pron.); en train de — in the middle of; s’en aller — to go away |
| se | se | himself, herself, itself, themselves; each other (reflexive pron.); s’ also stands for si — if — in s’il, s’ils |
| cachant | cacher | to hide (v.); se cacher — to hide oneself |
| dans | dans | in, into (prep.) |
| lit | lit | bed (n., m.) |
| sous | sous | under (prep.); also pl. of sou — a small coin: quelques sous, a few pennies |
| couverture | couverture | blanket, bedcover (n., f.) |
| Mets | mettre | to put; to put on, wear (v.); se mettre à — to begin to; se mettre dans le lit — to get into bed; se mettre le cœur à l’envers — to fret |
| galette | galette | flat cake, griddle cake (n., f.) |
| et | et | and (conj.) |
| petit | petit | small, little (adj.); la petite — the little one |
| pot | pot | pot, jar (n., m.) |
| de | de | of, from; some, any (prep./partitive art.) — du pain, de l’eau; pas de — no, not any; de… en… — from… to… |
| beurre | beurre | butter (n., m.) |
| sur | sur | on, upon (prep.) |
| huche | huche | bread bin, kneading trough (n., f.) |
| viens | venir | to come (v.); venir de + inf. — to have just done; il vint à elle — there came up to her; venir à passer — to happen to pass |
| te | te | you, to you; yourself (pron.) |
| coucher | coucher | to put to bed (v.); se coucher — to lie down, go to bed; être couché — to be lying down |
| avec | avec | with (prep.) |
| moi | moi | me, I (stressed pron.); pour moi — as for me |
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