French–English parallel text
Trente jours, pas d’argent
Thirty Days, No Money
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Le pari
The bet
Jonas habite à Berlin. Il a vingt-neuf ans. Il travaille dans un magasin de téléphones.
Jonas lives in Berlin. He is twenty-nine. He works in a phone shop.
Jonas aime l’argent. Mais l’argent n’aime pas Jonas. Il part très vite.
Jonas likes money. But money does not like Jonas. It goes away very fast.
Chaque matin, il achète un café pour quatre euros. Chaque jour à midi, il achète un burger. Chaque soir, il achète une pizza sur son téléphone.
Every morning, he buys a coffee for four euros. Every day at lunch, he buys a burger. Every evening, he buys a pizza on his phone.
Et la nuit, il achète des choses sur Internet. Des chaussettes avec des chats dessus. Une lampe en forme de banane.
And at night, he buys things on the internet. Socks with cats on them. A lamp in the shape of a banana.
Mia est sa colocataire. Elle a la chambre à côté de la sienne. La cuisine et la salle de bains sont pour tous les deux.
Mia is his flatmate. She has the room next to his. The kitchen and the bathroom are for both of them.
Le lundi matin, il y a un grand carton à la porte. Mia le regarde.
On Monday morning, there is a big box at the door. Mia looks at it.
« Jonas ! Qu’est-ce que c’est ? »
“Jonas! What is this?”
« Une lampe, » dit Jonas. « C’est une banane. »
“A lamp,” says Jonas. “It is a banana.”
« Une lampe banane ? »
“A banana lamp?”
« Elle est très jolie. Elle est jaune. »
“It is very nice. It is yellow.”
Mia ouvre le réfrigérateur. Il n’y a rien dedans. Seulement un très vieux citron.
Mia opens the fridge. There is nothing in it. Only a very old lemon.
« Jonas, où est ton argent ? C’est le cinq du mois. Et le réfrigérateur est vide. »
“Jonas, where is your money? It is the fifth of the month. And the fridge is empty.”
« Mon argent est dans mon café. Et dans ma pizza. Et dans ma banane. »
“My money is in my coffee. And in my pizza. And in my banana.”
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