| figuré |
| 1. adj. figurative | |
| 2. Participle. past participle of figurer | |
| familier |
| 1. adj. familiar (known to one) | |
| 2. adj. (linguistics) familiar, informal, colloquial (lexicon) | |
| réduire |
| 1. v. to reduce | |
| 2. v. to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures etc.) | |
| 3. v. (indtr, à) to reduce (someone) to | |
| Je les ai réduits en esclavage. I reduced them to slavery. | |
| 4. v. (indtr, en) to reduce (something) to | |
| La maison fut réduite en cendres. The house was reduced to ashes. | |
| 5. v. (medicine) to reduce, set | |
| 6. v. (chemistry, cooking) to reduce | |
| 7. v. (military) to capture (place), quell (opposition etc.) | |
| 8. v. (indtr, à, .takes a reflexive pronoun) to amount to, to come down to | |
| Les copules, qui se réduisent au rôle de lien syntaxique entre sujet et attribut en estompant leur sémantique propre, sont souvent des verbes d'état. - | |
| sa |
| 1. det. (possessive) his, her, its, their, one's | |
| Emma est allée chez sa sœur. - Emma went to her sister's house. | |
| Pierre a perdu sa carte d'identité. - Pierre has lost his identity card. | |
| Sa voiture est blanche. - Their car is white. | |
| dépense |
| 1. n-f. expense | |
| 2. n-f. expenditure | |
| 3. n-f. spending | |
| 4. v. first-person singular present of dépenser | |
| 5. v. third-person singular present of dépenser | |
| 6. v. second-person singular imperative of dépenser | |
| dépenser |
| 1. v. to spend (money) | |
| devenir |
| 1. n-m. future | |
| 2. v. to become | |
| 3. v. (Louisiana French , followed by de) to come from | |
| plus |
| 1. adv. more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives) | |
| Ton voisin est plus moche que mon frère. - Your neighbour is uglier than my brother. | |
| Le tien est beaucoup plus grand que le mien. - Yours is much bigger than mine. | |
| Elle est plus belle que sa cousine. - She is more beautiful than her cousin. | |
| Elles sont toutes plus entêtées les unes que les autres. - They are each more stubborn than the last. | |
| 2. adv. more, -er (used to form comparatives of adverbs) | |
| Elle le fait plus rapidement que lui. - She does it more quickly than he does. | |
| plus vite ! - faster! | |
| 3. adv. (after a verb) more, -er (indicating a higher degree or quantity) | |
| Je travaille plus en ce moment. - I am working more at the moment. | |
| Je veux faire plus. - I want to do more. | |
| 4. adv. more (indicating a greater quantity) (+preo, noun) | |
| Elle a plus de chocolat. - She has more chocolate. | |
| Plus de la moitié reste. - More than half is left. | |
| 5. adv. more (supplementary, preceded by de) | |
| Une heure de plus et il serait mort. - One more hour and he would be dead. | |
| Un kilo de plus, s'il vous plaît. - One more kilo, please. | |
| 6. adv. (preceded by a definite article) the most, -est (used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs) | |
| la plus grande - the biggest | |
| le plus difficile - the most difficult | |
| 7. adv. (usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below) no longer, not ... any more | |
| Tu n'existes plus. - You no longer exist. / You don't exist any more. | |
| Il n'y a plus de travail. - There is no more work. | |
| 8. adv. (elliptically, introducing each clause) the more ..., the more ... | |
| Plus je vois, plus je veux. - The more I see, the more I want. | |
| 9. adv. (similarly, used with other comparatives) the more ..., the ... | |
| Plus j'écoute, moins je comprends. - The more I listen, the less I understand. | |
| 10. n-m. plus, the symbol + | |
| 11. v. singular past historic of plaire | |
| 12. Participle. masculine plural of plu | |
| économe |
| 1. adj. penny-wise; thrifty; economical | |
| 2. n. bursar | |
| 3. n-m. vegetable peeler | |
