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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

le coude

the elbow

Je me suis cogné le coude contre la porte.
I bumped my elbow against the door.

THIS WEEK
We’ll use the remainder of this week to cover parts of the body.

GRAMMAR NOTE
You might have noticed that when the French talk about parts of their own body, they do not change the article preceding the part of the body to a possessive pronoun, such as my, as we do in English. It is understood that the part of the body they’re referring to is their own.

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