| droit |
| 1. n-m. right (entitlement) | |
| J'ai le droit de dormir. - I have the right to sleep. | |
| 2. n-m. law (study of law) | |
| Il est étudiant en droit. - He is a law student. | |
| 3. n-m. (geometry) right angle | |
| Un angle de trois droits. - An angle of 270 degrees. | |
| 4. adj. right (on the right-hand side) | |
| Donne-moi ta main droite. - Give me your right hand. | |
| 5. adj. straight (not bent or crooked) | |
| Une rue droite. - A straight road. | |
| 6. adj. (geometry) right (of an angle) | |
| 7. adv. straight, straight on | |
| 8. adv. upright, straight, not bent or crooked | |
| Tenez votre tête droit. - Keep your head straight. | |
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| document |
| 1. n-m. document | |
| 2. n-m. (computing) file | |
| partie |
| 1. n-f. part (portion, amount) | |
| Il y a deux parties principales de ce truc. - There are two main parts to this thing. | |
| faire partie (de) to participate in | |
| 2. n-f. (legal) party | |
| 3. n-f. game, play (sense "the conduct, or course of a game") | |
| 4. n-f. (math) subset | |
| 5. Participle. feminine singular of parti | |
| partir |
| 1. v. (obsolete, transitive) to share, to share out, to divide | |
| Avoir maille à partir avec quelqu'un. - To have scores to settle with someone, to have a bone to pick with someone. | |
| 2. v. to go away, leave, depart | |
| 3. v. to originate | |
| Toutes les artères partent du cœur. - All arteries originate from the heart. | |
| 4. v. to die | |
| Il ne s'est pas vu partir - He has not seen death | |
| 5. v. to emanate | |
| Cette croyance est partie d'un mauvais principe. - This belief emanates from an evil principle. | |
| 6. v. (Quebec, informal, transitive) to start | |
| partir une affaire - to start a business | |
| de |
| 1. prep. of (expresses belonging) | |
| Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France. | |
| 2. prep. of (used to express property or association) | |
| Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works | |
| Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife. | |
| le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
| 3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
| Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
| Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
| Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
| C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France. | |
| Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. - The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux. | |
| 4. prep. of (indicates an amount) | |
| 5 kilos de pommes. - 5 kilograms of apples. | |
| Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
| Une portion de frites - A portion of fries | |
| 5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word | |
| Un jus de pomme - Apple juice | |
| Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
| Une boîte de nuit - A nightclub | |
| Un chien de garde - A guarddog | |
| Une voiture de sport - A sportscar | |
| Un stade de football - A football stadium | |
| 6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) | |
| De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free. | |
| Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
| un groupe de cinq à huit personnes - a group of from five to eight people | |
| 7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive | |
| J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
| Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
| Elle m’a dit de venir. - She told me to come. | |
| Nous vous exhortons de venir. - We urge you to come. | |
| 8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) | |
| Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. - Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%. | |
| 9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. | |
| Ce sont de bons enfants. - They are good children. | |
| Il y a d’autres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
| 10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
| Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother. | |
| Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat. | |
| Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems. | |
| 11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
| un |
| 1. art. an, a | |
| 2. num. number box, fr | |
| 3. num. one | |
| 4. pron. one, someone | |
| 5. n-m. one (the number or figure) | |
| dossier |
| 1. n-m. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on | |
| 2. n-m. dossier | |
| 3. n-m. (computing) folder | |
| 4. n-m. an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder | |
| 5. n-m. (figuratively) case, notably legal | |
