Usage examples of "cueillir" in French with translation to English

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Nous sommes allés cueillir des fraises. We went picking strawberries.

Elle s'arrêta de cueillir des pâquerettes. She stopped picking daisies.

C'est la saison pour cueillir le thé. This is the season to pick fresh tea.

Les filles voulaient cueillir de belles fleurs au printemps. The girls wanted to pick beautiful flowers in spring.

J'ai vu les filles cueillir des fleurs sauvages. I saw the girls pick the wild flowers.

Elle a cueilli des fleurs. She picked flowers.

J'ai cueilli une pâquerette à son intention. I plucked a daisy for her.

Elle m'a cueilli une pomme. She picked me an apple.

Et serais-je pomme un peu dorée, pour que tu me cueilles, glissant par un tel froid, tandis que le soleil et l'ombre, ta robe d'herbe tachetée, ta robe d'herbe et tes cheveux d'or filés. Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn, and your hair's spun gold.

Il cueillit des fleurs pour elle. He picked flowers for her.

Cueillons des fleurs dans le jardin. Let's pick flowers from the garden.

Elle a cueilli des fleurs dans le jardin. She picked flowers in the garden.

Elle ne veut pas qu'il cueille les fleurs. She doesn't want him to pick the flowers.

Après avoir cueilli des myrtilles, je ferai une tarte. After I pick some blueberries, I make a tart.

Ce fruit n'est pas assez mûr pour être cueilli. This fruit has not matured enough to be picked.

Nous cueillîmes des pommes de manière à confectionner une tarte. We picked apples so we could make an apple pie.

Nous avons cueilli des pommes de manière à confectionner une tarte. We picked apples so we could make an apple pie.

J'aimerais bien voir les arbres où tu as cueilli ces pommes. I would like to see the trees from which you picked these apples.

Ils ont alors cueilli des pissenlits et les ont mis à leurs oreilles. Then they picked dandelions and put them in their ears.

Ils cueillirent alors des dent-de-lions et se les mirent à l'oreille. Then they picked dandelions and put them in their ears.

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