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PBENDRE, VAINCRE. 59
6. They began to laugh when they saw us. 7. Is it not expensive to
live in Paris? 8. Let us be on the alert. 9. Frenchman, said Henry IV
to his soldiers on the point of giving battle, if you lose your standards,
follow your king. 10. Do not promise what ( 217) you cannot keep.
11. So great a prince will for ever live in history. 12. That play is
very popular (followed). 13. This desponding idea haunts me night and
day. 14. You have begun well ( 238. b), proceed! 15. We began to
laugh, and they began to cry. 16. He lived like a prince.
LIP legon: Prendre, vaincre. 99. D.
(a) Prendre part a . . . , To take a share in . . .
en bonne (mauvaise) part, To take kindly, well fill, amiss).
la parole, To begin to speak.
fait et cause pour quelqu'un, To take one's part.
son parti,
To make up one's mind.
la clef des champs. To bolt; to sheer off.
garde (prenez garde de To mind (mind you don't fall).
tomber),
patience, To have patience, to be patient.
S'en prendre a (je m'en prendrai a To blame (I shall lay the blame on you).
vous),
Ne savoir comment s'y prendre,
Bien lui a pris d'etre averti,
Not to know how to set about,
It was lucky for him he was warned.
II lui en prendra mal, 111 will betide him; it will be the worse
Aller (venir) prendre quelqu'un, To call for some one. [for him.
Prendre 1'occasion aux cheveux, To take time by the Prendre a tdmoin,
forelock.
To call to witness.
Prendre les devants,
A tout prendre,
To take the
In the main.
start.
Upon the Le prendre de haut (bien haut), To talk big.
whole. All in all.
S'dprendre de, To take a fancy for (to be smitten with).
La riviere est prise, The river is frozen over.
(Impers.) II me prend un grand / am seized with a great trembling.
tremblement,
Prendre (la prise d') une ville, To take (the taking of) a town.
Conque'rir (la conquete d') un pays, To conquer (the conquest of) a country.
Vaincre (la victoire sur) 1'ennemi, To conquer (the victory over) the enemy.
Regie: Les verbes prendre, demander, enseigner, etc. veulent le nom de la
personne au datif ( 130).
(fo) 1. Qu'est-ce que Cesar ecrivit au senat remain, apres
avoir vaincu Phar-
nace? Je suis venu, j'ai vu, j'ai vaincu (je vins, je vis, je vainguis).
2. Quand est-ce que les Turcs prirent Constantinople? 11s la prirent
en 1453. 3. Apprenez-vons 1'italien? Oui, je Vapprends; il y a neuf