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  • Bon aussi mon papa m'a fait comprendre qu'il irai acheter Feufeudisse (Final Fantasy 10 pour ceux qui ne vivent pas avec moi ....)

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2003

  • 'Je suis parti de Cawnpore le premier du mois et suis arrivé ici ce matin, je partirai ce soir et serai à Chandernagore le 7 au matin, dans la journée je ferai une visite au Gouverneur et le lendemain irai à Calcutta, je verrai notre Consul General.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • In the same way French futures of the type irai “ (I) shall go” are but the resultants of a coalescence of originally independent words: ir29 a'i “to-go I-have, ” under the influence of a unifying accent.

    Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts 1921

  • "Vous pouvez me renvoyer, mais je ne m'en irai pas, je vous le dis d'avance," she began, in her characteristic, indifferent way.

    Forged Coupon And Other Stories 1911

  • "Fous pouvez me renvoyer, mais je ne m'en irai pas, je vous le dis d'avance," she began, in her characteristic, indifferent way.

    The Forged Coupon Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • "Vous n'avez pas besoin de me tenir ainsi," I said to the officer; "j irai tranquillement" He loosened his hold and we were then marched off to another military station, in a different part of the town from that whence we had escaped.

    Dreams and Dream Stories Anna Bonus Kingsford 1867

  • "Je m'en irai," Mrs. Lamotte said at last, as she saw that her presence was annoying Edith; and as the latter offered no remonstrance, she left the room, and Edith was alone with her confused thoughts.

    Darkness and Daylight Mary Jane Holmes 1866

  • "Je crains beaucoup d'oublier le francais -- j'apprends tous les jours une demie page de francais par coeur, et j'ai grand plaisir a apprendre cette lecon, Veuillez presenter a Madame l'assurance de mon estime; je crains que Maria-Louise et Claire ne m'aient deja oubliees; mais je vous reverrai un jour; aussitot que j'aurais gagne assez d'argent pour alter a Bruxelles, j'y irai."

    Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Notice too the skilful way in which he avoids the hiatus in irai-je-y or y-irai-je?

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

  • I have just heard a child severely scolded by his father for saying, "Mon pere, irai-je-t-y?"

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

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