[ 3.] Un pauvre diable, a poor fellow.
[ 4.] Il sera, he must have; a common idiom of the future perfect.
[ 5.] à cette heure, just now.
[ 6.] il faudrait, less blunt and more courteous than il faut.
[ 7.] j'arrive, I will go; the French present for future and the verb used are more vivid than the English rendering.
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[ 1.] Le décès constaté, the cause of death is determined.
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[ 1.] j'aurais quelque chose à vous demander, I should like to ask a favor of you.
[ 2.] prairie communale, common; a part of nearly every European village.
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[ 1.] Il me défendait toujours, he was all the time forbidding me.
[ 2.] la grande rue, the main street.