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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

épousseter

to dust

Claudia époussette les meubles dans la chambre.
Claudia is dusting the furniture in the bedroom.

GRAMMAR NOTE
Note that the t is doubled in many forms of the present-tense conjugation of épousseter: j’époussette, tu époussettes, il/elle époussette, nous époussetons, vous époussetez and ils/elles époussettent. The past participle is épousseté.

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