que • , , de si hon. See note to

25. UTie soupe à la bière, A principal ingredient Is expressed by h with the definite article : e.g. soupe aux choux^ * cabbage soup.' Soupe is now thought vulgar; the reûued word is potage. Beer soup, a composition into which eggé appear to enter, is eaten with great relish by the German-speaking peasantry.

27. chouerofite. The Oer. Sauerkraut means sour, i.e. fermented cabbage. The French term is an analogous formation to the London inn-sign * Bell and Savage,' which was originally La beUe Sauvage. Thus ehou = Kraut ; croûte sounds like Kraut and means nothin<?.

29. veau. Vienna is famous for veal. Yeal cutlets are called in Ger. * Vienna cutlets.*

35. il n*en devait être, etc *Ouglit' and 'must' are defective verbH, and the dependent verb marks the time; devoir and falloir (impersonal) have all tenses, and mark the time themselves. Cf. il dtiit être, ' it must l)e ; ' il devait être, * it mu8t have been.' Translate tlie pronoun en here with meilleur, * the better for it.'

37. je vous en réponds. En répondre with its dative means * to assnre a )^)er«on of a thing.' Gf. the English idiom 'I can answer for it,' in which, however, the vous must be suppressed.

38. comme , • , et que. The conjunction que is used to avoid the repetition of other conjunction& Gf. 46, 1. 3, where que stands fur quand. Bender que, then, as if it were comme.