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One sentence of «La Dernière Classe»


Sentence 55 of 92 · La Dernière Classe, Alphonse Daudet, 1873

Nous avons tous notre bonne part de reproches à nous faire.

We all have our fair share of reproaches to make ourselves.

Where it stands

The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.

Vous prétendiez être Français, et vous ne savez ni parler ni écrire votre langue !…

You claimed to be French, and you can neither speak nor write your own language!…

Dans tout ça, mon pauvre Franz, ce n’est pas encore toi le plus coupable.

In all this, my poor Franz, it is still not you who is most to blame.

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Nous nouswe; us, to us; ourselves (pron.)
avons avoirto have (v.); il y a — there is, there are; avoir beau + inf. — to do in vain; avoir peur — to be afraid
tous toutall, every; quite, very (adj./adv.); tout à coup — suddenly; tout de suite — at once; tout à fait — entirely; tout à l’heure — right away
notre notreour (notre, nos) (poss. adj.)
bonne bongood; kind (adj.); sentir bon — to smell sweet; de bon cœur — heartily
part partirshare, part (n., f.)
de deof, from; some, any (prep./partitive art.) — du pain, de l’eau; pas de — no, not any; de… en… — from… to…
reproches reprochereproach (n., m.)
à àto, at, in; with (prep.); c’est à… — it belongs to…; à boire — something to drink
nous nousourselves, to ourselves (pron.)
faire 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

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