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Sentence 10 of 92 · La Dernière Classe, Alphonse Daudet, 1873

« Ne te dépêche pas tant, petit ; tu y arriveras toujours assez tôt à ton école ! »

“Don’t hurry so, lad; you’ll get to that school of yours soon enough!”

Every word in it

As printedDictionary formMeaning
Ne nenot (neg. particle) — ne… pas, ne… point, ne… plus, ne… que (only); ne… rien — nothing; ne… guère — hardly
te teyou, to you; yourself (pron.)
dépêche dépêcherto hurry (se dépêcher) (v.)
pas pasnot (ne… pas) (adv.); step, pace (n., m.); pas même — not even
tant tantso much, so many (adv.); tant que — as much as
petit petitsmall, little (adj.); la petite — the little one
tu tuyou — familiar (pron.)
y ythere; in it, to it (pron./adv.); il y a — there is
arriveras arriverto arrive; to happen (v.) — il arriva que, it happened that; s’il vous arrive de — if you happen to
toujours toujoursalways; still (adv.)
assez assezenough; rather, quite (adv.)
tôt tôtearly, soon (adv.) — ne… pas plus tôt… que, no sooner… than
à àto, at, in; with (prep.); c’est à… — it belongs to…; à boire — something to drink
ton tonyour (ton, ta, tes) (poss. adj.)
école écoleschool (n., f.)

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