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Sentence 23 of 34 · Le petit Chaperon rouge, Charles Perrault, 1697

Le petit Chaperon rouge se déshabille, et va se mettre dans le lit, où elle fut bien étonnée de voir comment sa mère-grand était faite en son déshabillé.

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.

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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.”

— Elle lui dit : Ma mère-grand, que vous avez de grands bras !

She said to her: “Grandmother, what big arms you have!”

— C’est pour mieux t’embrasser, ma fille !

“All the better to hug you with, my child!”

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Le lethe (le, la, l’, les); him, her, it, them — as an object (art./pron.)
petit petitsmall, little (adj.); la petite — the little one
Chaperon chaperonhood (n., m.); le petit Chaperon rouge — Little Red Riding Hood
rouge rougered (adj.)
se sehimself, herself, itself, themselves; each other (reflexive pron.); s’ also stands for si — if — in s’il, s’ils
déshabille déshabillerto undress (v.); se déshabiller — to get undressed
et etand (conj.)
va allerto 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
mettre mettreto 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
dans dansin, into (prep.)
lit litbed (n., m.)
where; in which (adv./rel. pron.); d’où — where from
elle elleshe, her; it (pron.) — elles, they, them (f.)
fut êtreto be (v.); c’est — it is; also forms the past of some verbs: elle est venue — she came
bien bienwell; very, quite; indeed (adv.) — bien aise, very glad; bien autre chose — something quite different; bien plus — far more
étonnée étonnéastonished, surprised (adj.)
de deof, from; some, any (prep./partitive art.) — du pain, de l’eau; pas de — no, not any; de… en… — from… to…
voir voirto see (v.); se voir — to see oneself; voyons — let’s see; voyez-vous — you see
comment commenthow; what! (adv.)
sa sonhis, her, its (det.) — son, sa, ses; also le son, sound: à son de trompe; also bran (n., m.) — du son, rabbit bait
mère-grand mère-grandgrandmother (n., f.) — Perrault’s word
faite faireto 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
en enin, into; while (+ -ing) (prep.); of it, of them, some (pron.); en train de — in the middle of; s’en aller — to go away
déshabillé déshabilléstate of undress, nightclothes (n., m.); en son déshabillé — in her nightclothes

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