pleurer

Tom va pleurer.

Tom'll cry.

Puis-je pleurer ?

Can I cry?

Ça me fit pleurer.

This made me cry.

Il me fit pleurer.

He made me cry.

Je la fis pleurer.

I made her cry.

Je le fis pleurer.

I made him cry.

Elle mit un instant à recouvrer son souffle. Non ! Elle ne pleurerait pas devant lui.

She took a moment to catch her breath. No! She would not cry in front of him.

Il ne cessa de pleurer.

He kept on crying.

Elle l'entendit pleurer.

She heard him cry.

Elle continua à pleurer.

She kept on crying.

Tom continuait à pleurer.

Tom continued crying.

Pleurait-elle ces nouveaux morts, venus rejoindre, dans des tombes aux couronnes fleuries, les 10 000 jeunes hommes et femmes tombés au combat ? Ou pleurait-elle la fin d’un monde ?

Was she weeping for the newly dead, who had just arrived to join—in graves crowned with flowers—the 10,000 young men and women fallen in combat? Or was she weeping for the end of a world?