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War and Peace vocabulary
20 French vocabulary words
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être
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Definition:to bepresent tense conjugation:singular: suis es estplural: sommes êtes son
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Well, this I didn’t expect of you! On peut être jaloux, mais à ce point, c’est du dernier ridicule!”*
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
**One can be jealous, but at this point, it's most ridiculous!
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I learned the first two tenses of the verb Etre, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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“Tu as l’envie d’y aller? En France?” Boylan asked, testing him. He had said he could speak a little French and Boylan wasn’t going to let him get away with it unchallenged.
“J’irai, je suis sûr,” Rudolph said, remembering just how Miss Lenaut would have said it.
Irwin Shaw. Rich Man, Poor Man (1959)
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