The French reading room
One sentence of «La Dernière Classe»
Ah ! je m’en souviendrai de cette dernière classe…
Ah! I shall remember that last class…
Where it stands
The sentences either side of it, each with its own page.
Over there, at the back of the room, old Hauser had put on his spectacles and, holding his primer in both hands, he was spelling out the letters with them.
You could see that he too was trying hard; his voice shook with emotion, and it was so comical to hear him that we all wanted to laugh and to cry.
Every word in it
| As printed | Dictionary form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ah | ah | ah!, oh! (interj.) |
| je | je | I (pron.) |
| m | me | me, to me, myself (pron.) |
| en | en | of it, from it, about it (pron.) |
| souviendrai | souvenir | to remember (se souvenir) (v.) |
| de | de | of, from; some, any (prep./partitive art.) — du pain, de l’eau; pas de — no, not any; de… en… — from… to… |
| cette | ce | this, that; these, those (dem. adj.); it, that (pron.) — c’est, it is; ce qui, ce que — what |
| dernière | dernier | last (adj.); l’an dernier — last year; ce dernier — the latter, this last one |
| classe | classe | class, lesson; classroom (n., f.); faire la classe — to teach |
Read «La Dernière Classe» in the room Every word glossed where it stands, the English a tap away. The whole tale is free and asks for no account.