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One sentence of «La Dernière Classe»
Moi-même, n’ai-je rien à me reprocher ?
And I myself — have I nothing to reproach myself with?
Where it stands
The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.
« Vos parents n’ont pas assez tenu à vous voir instruits.
“Your parents did not care enough about seeing you educated.
They preferred to send you to work on the land or in the mills, to bring in a few more pennies.
Est-ce que je ne vous ai pas souvent fait arroser mon jardin au lieu de travailler ?
Haven’t I often had you water my garden instead of doing your work?
Et quand je voulais aller pêcher des truites, est-ce que je me gênais pour vous donner congé ?… »
And when I wanted to go trout fishing, did I think twice about giving you the day off?…”
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Moi-même | moi-même | myself (emphatic pron.) |
| n | ne | not (neg. particle) — ne… pas, ne… point, ne… plus, ne… que (only); ne… rien — nothing; ne… guère — hardly |
| ai-je | avoir | to have (v.); il y a — there is, there are; avoir beau + inf. — to do in vain; avoir peur — to be afraid |
| rien | rien | nothing (pron.); ne… rien — nothing; rien que — merely, just; ne valoir rien — to be no good |
| à | à | to, at, in; with (prep.); c’est à… — it belongs to…; à boire — something to drink |
| me | me | me, to me, myself (pron.) |
| reprocher | reprocher | to reproach (v.); se reprocher — to blame oneself for |
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