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pensai-je

I thought

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phrase Rare #45,568
I thought A literary form used in dialogue or narration, with the verb placed before the subject pronoun.
FR: Il est déjà parti, pensai-je.
EN: He’s already left, I thought.

Les deux autres vont venir, pensai-je, qu'il se débrouille !

The other two will come, I thought. Let him figure it out!

Ils devaient être deux, pensai-je.

There must have been two of them, I thought.

Sans doute, pensai-je, elle n'ose pas, en public.

She probably doesn’t dare, I thought, not in public.

Il doit être là, pensai-je.

He must be there, I thought.

Bon, pensai-je, j’allais avoir beaucoup de nettoyage à faire.

Well, I thought, I was going to have a lot of cleaning to do.