Chapter 9 of Jenny: A Novel is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of Jenny: A Novel is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Thank you, Jenny dear.” Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table. “I hope you will be very, very happy. You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted. Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
Chapter 9 of Jenny: A Novel is here in full — 405 sentences across 81 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
From this reading “You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.”
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
From this reading “Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.”
plural of “drawing” — an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper
From this reading “Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.”
possessing or exerting or displaying energy
From this reading “You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.”
endowed with talent or talents
From this reading “You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.”
a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
From this reading “Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.”
United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
From this reading ““Thank you, Jenny dear.””
past form of “straighten” — straighten up or out; make straight
From this reading “Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.
in or to or toward a former location
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “I hope you will be very, very happy.
emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
From this reading You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
a young person of either sex
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
From this reading You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.
provide with a covering or cause to be covered
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
dearly loved
From this reading “Thank you, Jenny dear.”
plural of “drawing” — an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
possessing or exerting or displaying energy
From this reading You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.
all things; all of a situation
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
endowed with talent or talents
From this reading You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.
a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
From this reading “I hope you will be very, very happy.
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading “I hope you will be very, very happy.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I hope you will be very, very happy.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907)
From this reading “Thank you, Jenny dear.”
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading You are so bright and courageous, so energetic and gifted.
past form of “straighten” — straighten up or out; make straight
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
a set of data arranged in rows and columns
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
express gratitude or show appreciation to
From this reading “Thank you, Jenny dear.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Gram put the drawings back in their cover and straightened the table.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
precisely as stated
From this reading “I hope you will be very, very happy.
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Dear child, you are everything I wanted to be, but never was.”
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “I hope you will be very, very happy.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Thank you, Jenny dear.”
Chapter 9 of Jenny: A Novel by Sigrid Undset holds 405 sentences, grouped into 81 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 9 holds 405 sentences of Jenny: A Novel, unabridged, divided into 81 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 9 of Jenny: A Novel by Sigrid Undset exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 405 sentences, grouped into 81 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 81 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 9 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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