figuré |
1. adj. figurative | |
2. Participle. past participle of figurer | |
Homme |
1. Proper noun. Man (genus Homo) | |
2. n-m. man (adult male human) | |
C'est un homme bien, le meilleur d'entre nous. - He's a good man, the best of us. | |
3. n-m. man, Man (species) | |
4. n-m. man (virile male) | |
5. n-m. man (employee) | |
qui |
1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom | |
Tu as vu qui ? - Who have you seen? | |
Je ne sais pas qui vous êtes. - I don't know who you are. | |
2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that | |
La personne qui parle connait bien son sujet. - The person who speaks knows his/her subject well. | |
Cette voiture bleue qui passe me plait beaucoup. - This blue car which is passing I like a lot. | |
J’aime les chiens qui sont calmes. - I like dogs that are quiet. | |
Un homme à qui j’ai parlé. - A man to whom I spoke/have spoken. | |
Si lugubre que fût l’appartement, c’était un paradis pour qui revenait du lycée. - Gloomy as the apartment was, it was still a paradise for those who came back from school. | |
Rira bien qui rira le dernier. - Who laughs last laughs well. | |
3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if | |
Qui elle en a, ça va faire. - If she has any, that will do. | |
fuit |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of fuir | |
2. v. third-person singular past historic of fuir | |
fuir |
1. v. to escape | |
2. v. to flee | |
3. v. to leak; to have a leak | |
Le robinet fuit. | |
la |
1. art. the (definite article) | |
2. pron. her, it (direct object) | |
Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her. | |
Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner. | |
3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' | |
société |
1. n-f. society | |
2. n-f. company | |
rustre |
1. adj. uncouth | |
2. n. a bumpkin, a yokel (person from the countryside) | |
3. n. a lout | |
4. n. a hulk | |
5. n-m. (heraldry) rustre | |
ou |
1. conj. or | |
2. conj. either...or | |
Ou il est fou ou il est bête. - Either he's mad or he's stupid. | |
rustaud |
1. adj. crass; vulgar | |
2. n-m. a crass or vulgar person | |