History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Page 1
incident that happened some years since; but which, trifling as it was, had some future consequences.
incident qui s'est produit quelques années auparavant ; mais qui, insignifiant qu'il était, eut quelques conséquences futures.
Vocabulary
- incident
- An unexpected event causing disruption or trouble
- qui
- Relative or interrogative pronoun meaning who or which
- s'
- Reflexive pronoun se contracted before a vowel
- est
- Third person singular present tense of être, meaning is
- produit
- Past participle of produire; occurred or took place
- quelques
- Indefinite adjective meaning a few or some
- années
- Plural of année, meaning years
- auparavant
- Adverb meaning before, previously, or beforehand
- mais
- Conjunction meaning but, introducing contrast
- insignifiant
- Adjective meaning insignificant, trivial, or unimportant
- qu'
- Conjunction que contracted before a vowel, meaning that
- il
- Third person singular masculine pronoun meaning he or it
- était
- Imperfect tense of être meaning was or used to be
- eut
- Simple past of avoir meaning had
- conséquences
- Plural noun meaning consequences or resulting effects
- futures
- Adjective meaning future, referring to things yet to come
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