フランス語日記翻訳【164】

急ぎ家にもどり手ごろなサイズの段ボール手に取り雪をかいてみたら、あら不思議！
みるみる雪が落ちるじゃないですか！

Je suis vite retourné à l’intérieur et j’ai attrapé une boîte en carton de taille pratique.
Puis, j’ai essayé de l’utiliser pour enlever la neige—et, waouh, ça a marché comme par magie !
La neige est simplement tombée sans effort.

解説

### **Sentence 1:**
**”Je suis vite retourné à l’intérieur et j’ai attrapé une boîte en carton de taille pratique.”**
**Meaning:** I quickly went back inside and grabbed a cardboard box of a convenient size.

#### **Grammar Breakdown:**
1. **”Je suis retourné”** → **Passé composé with “être” for movement verbs**
– **”Je”** → Subject pronoun (“I”).
– **”suis”** → Auxiliary verb (“être”), used for movement verbs in passé composé.
– **”retourné”** → Past participle of “retourner” (“to return/go back”).
– **Agreement:** **”retourné”** agrees with **”Je”** (masculine singular).

👉 **Describes a completed action of “returning inside.”**

2. **”vite”** → **Adverb (modifies the verb)**
– Means **”quickly”**, describing the manner of the action.

3. **”à l’intérieur”** → **Prepositional phrase (place)**
– **”à”** → Preposition (“to” / “inside”).
– **”l’intérieur”** → Masculine noun (“interior/inside”), preceded by “l'” (elision of “le”).

👉 **”Returning quickly inside.”**

4. **”et j’ai attrapé”** → **Coordination + passé composé with “avoir”**
– **”et”** → Coordinating conjunction (“and”).
– **”j’ai”** → Passé composé with auxiliary “avoir”.
– **”attrapé”** → Past participle of “attraper” (“to grab/catch”).

👉 **Indicates a second completed action: “grabbed.”**

5. **”une boîte en carton de taille pratique”** → **Complex noun phrase**
– **”une boîte”** → Indefinite article (“a”) + feminine noun (“box”).
– **”en carton”** → Prepositional phrase (“made of cardboard”).
– **”de taille pratique”** → Prepositional phrase describing size (“of a convenient size”).

👉 **Describes the grabbed object: “a cardboard box of a convenient size.”**

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### **Sentence 2:**
**”Puis, j’ai essayé de l’utiliser pour enlever la neige—et, waouh, ça a marché comme par magie !”**
**Meaning:** Then I tried using it to clear the snow—and wow, it worked like magic!

#### **Grammar Breakdown:**
1. **”Puis”** → **Adverb (time marker)**
– Means **”then”**, indicating sequence.

2. **”j’ai essayé”** → **Passé composé (“avoir” + past participle)**
– **”j’ai”** → Auxiliary (“avoir”), used for “essayer”.
– **”essayé”** → Past participle of “essayer” (“to try”).

👉 **”I tried.”**

3. **”de l’utiliser”** → **Infinitive construction with “de”**
– **”de”** → Preposition required after “essayer”.
– **”l’”** → Direct object pronoun (“it”), referring to “la boîte en carton”.
– **”utiliser”** → Infinitive verb (“to use”).

👉 **”Tried to use it.”**

4. **”pour enlever la neige”** → **Purpose clause (“pour” + infinitive)**
– **”pour”** → Preposition (“to” / “for”), indicating purpose.
– **”enlever”** → Infinitive verb (“to remove”).
– **”la neige”** → Direct object (“the snow”).

👉 **”To remove the snow.”**

5. **”et, waouh, ça a marché”** → **Interjection + passé composé**
– **”et”** → Coordination (“and”).
– **”waouh”** → Interjection (“wow”).
– **”ça a marché”** → Passé composé (“it worked”).

👉 **”And wow, it worked.”**

6. **”comme par magie”** → **Simile (comparison using “comme”)**
– **”comme”** → Preposition (“like”).
– **”par magie”** → Prepositional phrase (“as if by magic”).

👉 **”Like magic.”**

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### **Sentence 3:**
**”La neige est simplement tombée sans effort.”**
**Meaning:** The snow just fell off effortlessly.

#### **Grammar Breakdown:**
1. **”La neige”** → **Subject noun phrase (feminine singular)**
– **”La”** → Definite article (“the”), agrees with “neige” (feminine).

👉 **”The snow.”**

2. **”est tombée”** → **Passé composé with “être” for movement verbs**
– **”est”** → Auxiliary verb (“être”).
– **”tombée”** → Past participle of “tomber” (“to fall”), agrees with “neige” (feminine singular).

👉 **”Fell.”**

3. **”simplement”** → **Adverb (modifies “est tombée”)**
– Means **”simply/just”**, describing how the snow fell.

4. **”sans effort”** → **Prepositional phrase (“without effort”)**
– **”sans”** → Preposition (“without”).
– **”effort”** → Masculine noun (“effort”), no article needed in this structure.

👉 **”Effortlessly.”**