Chapter 6 of Pierrette is here in full — 180 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Pierrette is here in full — 180 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“I played,” she answered, naively. “Everybody played with me. Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories. Ah! they all loved me!” “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
Chapter 6 of Pierrette is here in full — 180 sentences across 36 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/36 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading ““I played,” she answered, naively.”
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
From this reading ““Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!””
every person
From this reading ““Everybody played with me.”
held dear
From this reading “Ah! they all loved me!””
in a naive manner
From this reading ““I played,” she answered, naively.”
(of games) engaged in
From this reading ““I played,” she answered, naively.”
plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading “Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.”
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading “Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.”
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From this reading Ah! they all loved me!”
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Ah! they all loved me!”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.
past form of “answer” — react verbally
From this reading “I played,” she answered, naively.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
every person
From this reading “Everybody played with me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I played,” she answered, naively.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
held dear
From this reading Ah! they all loved me!”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “Everybody played with me.
in a naive manner
From this reading “I played,” she answered, naively.
(of games) engaged in
From this reading “I played,” she answered, naively.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “I played,” she answered, naively.
plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.
carry out
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.
inflected form of “tell” — express in words
From this reading Grandmamma and grandpapa they told me stories.
in the company of; together with
From this reading “Everybody played with me.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “Hey!” said Rogron; “didn’t you take it easy!”
Chapter 6 of Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac holds 180 sentences, grouped into 36 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 6 holds 180 sentences of Pierrette, unabridged, divided into 36 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 180 sentences, grouped into 36 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 36 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 199 minutes of reading across 480 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Pierrette section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Pierrette, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
