Chapter 4 of Selected Polish Tales is here in full — 315 sentences across 63 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 4 of Selected Polish Tales is here in full — 315 sentences across 63 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband. 'Are you going to be long idling there?' 'What's the matter?' 'It's time to go to the manor-house.' 'Have they sent for me?'
Chapter 4 of Selected Polish Tales is here in full — 315 sentences across 63 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading “Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.”
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading “Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.”
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading “Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.”
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading “Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.”
having no employment
From this reading “'Are you going to be long idling there?'”
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading “'What's the matter?'”
immediately following in time or order
From this reading “Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.”
100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
From this reading “'Have they sent for me?'”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading 'Have they sent for me?'
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading 'It's time to go to the manor-house.'
the act of departing
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading 'Have they sent for me?'
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
having no employment
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 'It's time to go to the manor-house.'
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 'It's time to go to the manor-house.'
a vaguely specified concern
From this reading 'What's the matter?'
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading 'Have they sent for me?'
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
immediately following in time or order
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
From this reading 'Have they sent for me?'
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
in or at that place or location
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading 'Have they sent for me?'
an instance or single occasion for some event
From this reading 'It's time to go to the manor-house.'
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Slimakowa came to the barn early the next morning and called her husband.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 'What's the matter?'
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading 'Are you going to be long idling there?'
Chapter 4 of Selected Polish Tales by Else C. M. (Else Cecilia Mendelssohn) [Translator] Benecke holds 315 sentences, grouped into 63 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 4 holds 315 sentences of Selected Polish Tales, unabridged, divided into 63 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 4 of Selected Polish Tales by Else C. M. (Else Cecilia Mendelssohn) [Translator] Benecke exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 315 sentences, grouped into 63 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 63 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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