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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
nombreuses
1. adj. feminine plural of nombreux
nombreux
1. adj. numerous, many
unités
1. n. plural of unité
unité
1. n-f. unity
2. n-f. unit
blindées
1. adj. feminine plural of blindé
blindé
1. Participle. past participle of blinder
2. adj. (military) armoured, armour-plated; reinforced
3. adj. hardened, immune
4. adj. (slang) pissed, hammered (drunk)
5. adj. (slang) rich, minting it
6. adj. (slang) overcrowded
La ligne 13 est toujours blindée ! - Line 13 is always overcrowded!
7. n-m. (military) armored vehicle in general
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
avant
1. adv. beforehand; earlier
Je l'avais fait avant. - I had done it beforehand.
2. prep. before (in time)
Elle est arrivé un jour avant moi. - She arrived one day before me.
Il faut se laver avant de manger. - You must wash before eating.
Tais-toi avant que je ne te tue. - Shut up before I kill you.
3. prep. before (in space), in front of, ahead of
4. n-m. front
l'avant d'une voiture - The front of a car.
5. n-m. (sports) forward
garde
1. n. a watch, guard
2. n. a battalion responsible for guarding, defending a sovereign, a prince, more generally, of an elite corps.
3. n. (military) sentry service performed by soldiers.
4. n. (military) soldiers doing the sentry service
5. n. any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis.
6. n-f. a handle (of a weapon)
7. n-f. a protection (act of protecting)
8. v. first-person singular present of garder
9. v. third-person singular present of garder
10. v. second-person singular imperative of garder
garder
1. v. to keep; to retain; to store; to save
garder les yeux ouverts - to keep eyes open
Elle a le droit de garder secrètes la plupart de ses caractéristiques. - She has the right to keep most of her characteristics secret.
2. v. to guard
Ils gardent le bâtiment. - They guard the building.
3. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be careful (de faire not to do)
il se garde de dire n'importe quoi. - He is careful not to say anything.
étaient
1. v. third-person plural imperfect indicative of être
être
1. v. to be
Vous devez être plus clairs. - You must be clearer.
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs)
Après être allé au yoga, je suis rentré chez moi. - After having gone to yoga, I came back home.
3. v. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice)
Il peut être battu ce soir. - He can be beaten this evening.
4. n-m. being, creature
5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence
stoppées
1. Participle. feminine plural of stoppé
stopper
1. v. to stop, in regard to motors and machines
Une puissante voiture de marque étrangère stoppa au bout de l’avenue Ruysdaël, tout près de l’entrée du parc Monceau. - A powerful foreign car stopped at the end of Ruysdaël Avenue, very close
2. v. (colloquial) to take (a hit, a bullet)
Il avait stoppé un coquet gnon derrière les oreilles, mais il n’était pas mort. - He'd taken a nice, hard punch behind his ears, but he wasn't dead.
3. v. (colloquial) to stop
il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente - This permanent hostility must be stopped.
sur
1. prep. on, upon
2. prep. on top of
3. prep. from on top of
4. prep. above
5. prep. out of
sept sur dix - seven out of ten
6. prep. in the case of
7. prep. about, concerning
8. prep. (informal, France) in (a place)
sur Paris - in Paris
9. adj. sour
les
1. art. plural of le: the
2. art. plural of la: the
3. pron. plural of le: them
4. pron. plural of la: them
routes
1. n. plural of route
route
1. n-f. road (sometimes route like "Route 66")
2. n-f. route, way, path
faute
1. n-f. error, mistake
une faute d'orthographe - a spelling mistake
C'est la faute à pas de chance. - It’s bad luck’s fault.
2. n-f. fault, blame
c'est de ma faute - it's my fault
c'est toujours la faute aux autres - it's always other people's fault
il rejette la faute sur son patron - he laid/put the blame on his boss
3. n-f. (legal) wrong, misdemeanor
4. n-f. (sports) foul, fault (infraction of the rules)
fauter
1. v. to make a mistake, to mess up
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
faute de
1. prep. through lack of; for want of; because of a lack of
combustible
1. n-m. combustible
2. adj. combustible
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