"À mon tour"
I'm reading "Le Petit Prince" and there is this sentence I don't know how to translate:

J'ai alors beaucoup réfléchi sur les aventures de la jungle et, à mon tour, j'ai réussi, avec un crayon de couleur, à tracer mon premier dessin.

Can someone tell me how to translate "à mon tour" here? Does it mean "in my castle" or "in my tower"?

Question

"À mon tour"
I'm reading "Le Petit Prince" and there is this sentence I don't know how to translate:

J'ai alors beaucoup réfléchi sur les aventures de la jungle et, à mon tour, j'ai réussi, avec un crayon de couleur, à tracer mon premier dessin.

Can someone tell me how to translate "à mon tour" here? Does it mean "in my castle" or "in my tower"?

Answer

The clue here is in the gender of the word. 'La tour', meaning tower, is feminine. The word in this phrase - le tour - is masculine. You can see from the form of the possessive adjective - 'mon tour'.  Here the word means 'turn'.

So,' à mon tour' means something like 'when it was my turn (to try and draw)'

Answer

la tour = the tower

here it's LE TOUR / à mon (masculine) tour

--> TOUR = TURN
I succeeded ......, TOO

Kind regards
martine

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