Virelangues Flashcards

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A big black bear sat on a big black bug.

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A big black bear sat on a big black bug.

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Betty, better butter Brad’s bread.

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Betty, better butter Brad’s bread.

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Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

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Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

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A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

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A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

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Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

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Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

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How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

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Comment une palourde peut-elle se mettre dans un pot de crème propre ? (litt. boîte).

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I’ll chew and chew until my jaws drop.

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Je vais mâcher et mâcher jusqu’à ce que mes mâchoires tombent.

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Six sick hicks nick six slick pricks with picks and sticks.

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Six ploucs malades piquent six briques glissantes avec des pioches et des bâtons.

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Flies fly but a fly flies.

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Les mouches volent, mais une mouche vole.

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Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fish.

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Cinq grenouilles affolées ont fui devant cinquante poissons furieux.

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Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt.

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De tous les feutres que j’ai sentis, je n’ai jamais senti un feutre qui sentait comme ce feutre sentait.

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Four fuzzy Frenchmen frolicked through the fields in France.

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Quatre Français étourdis batifolaient à travers les champs en France.

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Three grey geese in green fields grazing.

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Trois oies grises broutent dans des champs verts.

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Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

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Des gargouilles bruyantes engloutirent des lutins bruyants.

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I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles.

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Je fixais avec reconnaissance les gazelles qui broutaient gracieusement.

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Gertie’s great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie’s grammar.

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L’arrière grand-mère de Gertie fut (litt. grandit) atterrée par la grammaire de Gertie.

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The minx mixed a medicinal mixture.

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La chipie mixa une mixture médicinale.

18
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There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminium pan.

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Il y avait un minimum de cannelle dans la poêle en aluminium.

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Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

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Peux-tu imaginer un directeur de ménagerie imaginaire qui s’imagine diriger une ménagerie imaginaire ?

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. …

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. …

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, …

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

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Peter Piper a pris un tas de petits piments au vinaigre. …

Un tas de petits piments au vinaigre a pris Peter Piper. …

Si Peter Piper prenait un tas de petits piments au vinaigre, …

Où est le tas de petits piments au vinaigre qu’a pris Peter Piper ?

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Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

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Six cygnes élégants nageaient rapidement vers le sud.

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Dust is a disk’s worst enemy.

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La poussière est le pire ennemi d’un disque.

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I see a sea down by the seashore.

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Je vois une mer en contrebas près de la côte.

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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

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Je crie, tu cries, nous crions tous pour de la glace !