Chapter 21 of Tales from the German, comprising specimens is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 21 of Tales from the German, comprising specimens is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“What trick do you mean? You talk so confusedly. Drink! here is to your health.” “And to yours, Colas! You have acquitted yourself well.
Chapter 21 of Tales from the German, comprising specimens is here in full — 410 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless
From this reading “You have acquitted yourself well.”
plural of “cola” — large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
From this reading ““And to yours, Colas!”
take in liquids
From this reading “Drink! here is to your health.””
a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
From this reading “Drink! here is to your health.””
exchange thoughts; talk with
From this reading “You talk so confusedly.”
a cunning or deceitful action or device
From this reading ““What trick do you mean?”
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading ““And to yours, Colas!”
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading “You have acquitted yourself well.”
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.
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.
declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless
From this reading You have acquitted yourself well.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “And to yours, Colas!
plural of “cola” — large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
From this reading “And to yours, Colas!
in a confused manner
From this reading You talk so confusedly.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “What trick do you mean?
take in liquids
From this reading Drink! here is to your health.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading You have acquitted yourself well.
a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
From this reading Drink! here is to your health.”
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Drink! here is to your health.”
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Drink! here is to your health.”
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading “What trick do you mean?
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading You talk so confusedly.
exchange thoughts; talk with
From this reading You talk so confusedly.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Drink! here is to your health.”
a cunning or deceitful action or device
From this reading “What trick do you mean?
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading You have acquitted yourself well.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading “What trick do you mean?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “What trick do you mean?
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Drink! here is to your health.”
the one or ones belonging to the person spoken to
From this reading “And to yours, Colas!
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading You have acquitted yourself well.
Chapter 21 of Tales from the German, comprising specimens by John [Translator] Oxenford holds 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 21 holds 410 sentences of Tales from the German, comprising specimens, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 21 of Tales from the German, comprising specimens by John [Translator] Oxenford exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 410 sentences, grouped into 82 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 82 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 82 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 21 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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