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petite |
1. adj. feminine singular of petit | |
petit |
1. adj. small | |
un petit verre de vin - a small glass of wine | |
2. adj. little | |
un petit garçon - a little boy | |
3. adj. petty | |
Certaines personnes sont vraiment petites à propos des plus petites choses. - Some people are really petty about the smallest things. | |
4. n-m. small one (anything that is small) | |
5. n-m. little one (anything that is little) | |
6. n-m. little one; child (of humans or other animals) | |
7. n-m. the young (of a species) | |
Le petit du lapin s'appelle le "lapereau". | |
rivière |
1. n-f. a river (one that flows into a river, lake, bay, etc., but not into an ocean or sea) | |
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. | |
parcourt |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of parcourir | |
parcourir |
1. v. to go through, to pass through | |
2. v. to read through, to skim | |
forêts |
1. n. plural of forêt | |
forêt |
1. n-f. forest | |
et |
1. conj. and | |
savanes |
1. n. plural of savane | |
et |
1. conj. and | |
se |
1. pron. The third-person reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun. | |
2. pron. (to) himself | |
3. pron. (to) herself | |
4. pron. (to) oneself | |
5. pron. (to) itself | |
6. pron. (to) themselves | |
7. pron. (to) each other | |
8. pron. (Louisiana) (The second-person plural reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.) | |
Je suis partie à la chasse et faut vous autres se comportes bien. - I'm going hunting and y'all need to behave yourselves. | |
jette |
1. v. first-person singular present of jeter | |
2. v. third-person singular present of jeter | |
3. v. second-person singular imperative of jeter | |
jeter |
1. v. to throw | |
2. v. to throw away, to discard | |
3. v. (card games) to throw away, discard | |
4. v. (indtr, .reflexive) to throw oneself (into, out of, etc.) | |
coi, L'Amazone se jette dans l'Océan Atlantique. | |
5. v. The Amazon throws herself into the Atlantic Ocean. | |
6. v. (indtr, sur, .reflexive) to rush oneself onto something or someone | |
dans |
1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state) | |
vieillir dans la misère - to grow old in poverty | |
être dans l'infanterie - to be in the infantry | |
avoir quelque chose dans la bouche - to have something in the mouth | |
dans les circonstances d'une pandémie - under the circumstances of a pandemic | |
Il habite dans le quartier le plus riche de Paris. - He lives in the richest district of Paris. | |
Il nage comme un poisson dans l'eau. - He swims like a fish in the water. | |
mettre l'argent dans la poche - to put money into one's pocket | |
Bienvenue dans le meilleur bar de tout Paris. - Welcome to the best bar in all of Paris. | |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes) | |
Aujourd'hui, je vais dans le Maine, et demain, je vais dans l’État de New York. - Today, I'm going to Maine, and tomorrow, I'm going to New York. | |
3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time) | |
Je serai prêt dans une heure. - I'll be ready in one hour. | |
Il arrivera dans trois jours. - He will arrive in three days. | |
4. prep. (with respect to time) during | |
dans un temps donné - during a given time | |
dans ma jeunesse - in my youth | |
5. prep. out of, from | |
boire dans une tasse - to drink from a cup | |
Il prend le beurre dans le réfrigérateur. - He takes the butter out of the fridge. | |
6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of | |
le marxisme dans Sartre - Marxism in the works of Sartre | |
7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les) | |
dans les trentes kilos - about thirty kilos | |
dans les dix euros - about ten euros | |
8. n. plural of dan | |
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) | |
fleuve |
1. n-m. a river that flows into an ocean or sea (a river that flows into another river or body of water is called a rivière) | |
L’Amazone est un fleuve d'Amérique du Sud. - The Amazon is a river located in South America. | |
Le fleuve Churchill au Labrador se jette dans l'Atlantique, alors que la rivière Churchill au Manitoba se jette dans la baie d'Hudson. - The Churchill River in Labrador flows into the Atlantic | |
2. n-m. (figurative) a continuous and unstoppable stream of people, things, or words | |
Ce qui devait être une brève question est rapidement devenue un discours-fleuve. - What was supposed to be a brief question quickly became a long-winded speech. | |
3. n-m. (mythology, art) a river god, or the allegorical artistic representation of a river as an old, bearded man lying on reeds and holding or leaning on an urn from which the river's water flows | |