| ainsi |
| 1. adv. in this way, thus | |
| que |
| 1. conj. that (introduces a subordinate noun clause and connects it to its parent clause) | |
| Je vois que tu parles bien français. - I see that you speak French well. | |
| 2. conj. Substitutes for another, previously stated conjunction. | |
| Si le temps est beau et que tout le monde est d'accord, nous mangerons en plein air. - If the weather is nice and if everyone likes the idea, we'll eat outside. | |
| 3. conj. when, no sooner | |
| Il était à peine parti qu’elle a téléphoné à la police. - No sooner had he left when she called the police. | |
| 4. conj. (Links two noun phrases in apposition forming a clause without a (finite) verb, such that the complement acts as predicate.) | |
| 5. conj. introduces a comparison | |
| 6. conj. (comparisons of superiority or inferiority) than | |
| Il est plus grand que son père. - He is taller than his father. | |
| 7. conj. (comparisons of equality) as | |
| Elle est aussi intelligente que toi. - She is as smart as you. | |
| 8. conj. (used with ne) only, just; but, nothing but | |
| Je ne mange que des fruits. - I eat nothing but fruit. | |
| 9. conj. how (in rhetorical interjections) | |
| Que c'est beau! - How beautiful it is! | |
| Mais que t'es drôle, quoi. - Oh, how funny you are. | |
| 10. pron. (tlb, interrogative) | |
| 11. pron. (slightly formal, accusative) (The inanimate direct-object interrogative pronoun.) | |
| Que pensez-vous de cette peinture ? - What do you think of that painting? | |
| Qu'auriez-vous fait d'autre ? - What else would you have done? | |
| 12. pron. (slightly formal, nominative) (The inanimate subject or predicative interrogative pronoun.) | |
| Qu'est-il arrivé ? - What happened? | |
| Que me vaut cette visite ? - To what do I owe this visit? | |
| Que sommes-nous ? - What are we? | |
| 13. pron. (accusative, relative) (The direct object relative pronoun.) | |
| C'est un homme que je connais très bien. - He's a man whom I know very well. | |
| Je viens de lire la lettre que vous m'avez envoyée. - I've just read the letter that you sent me. | |
| ainsi que |
| 1. conj. as, just as, like | |
| Cela s'est passé ainsi que je vous l'ai dit. - It happened just as I told you. | |
| 2. conj. as well as | |
| cela |
| 1. pron. that | |
| 2. v. third-person singular past historic of celer | |
| 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. | |
| produisait |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of produire | |
| produire |
| 1. v. to produce, to yield | |
| 2. v. to happen, take place (of an event) | |
| 3. v. to perform (of a singer, etc.) | |
| chaque |
| 1. adj. each | |
| 2. adj. every | |
| fois |
| 1. n-f. time (an instance or repetition of something happening) | |
| J'y vais deux fois par mois. - I go there twice a month. | |
| Je lui ai parlé pour la première fois il y a des années. - I talked to him for the first time a few years ago. | |
| 2. n-f. (arithmetic) times, multiplied by | |
| 3. n. plural of foi | |
| foi |
| 1. n-f. faith | |
| 2. n-f. (heraldry) a depiction of a handshake | |
| que |
| 1. conj. that (introduces a subordinate noun clause and connects it to its parent clause) | |
| Je vois que tu parles bien français. - I see that you speak French well. | |
| 2. conj. Substitutes for another, previously stated conjunction. | |
| Si le temps est beau et que tout le monde est d'accord, nous mangerons en plein air. - If the weather is nice and if everyone likes the idea, we'll eat outside. | |
| 3. conj. when, no sooner | |
| Il était à peine parti qu’elle a téléphoné à la police. - No sooner had he left when she called the police. | |
| 4. conj. (Links two noun phrases in apposition forming a clause without a (finite) verb, such that the complement acts as predicate.) | |
| 5. conj. introduces a comparison | |
| 6. conj. (comparisons of superiority or inferiority) than | |
| Il est plus grand que son père. - He is taller than his father. | |
| 7. conj. (comparisons of equality) as | |
| Elle est aussi intelligente que toi. - She is as smart as you. | |
| 8. conj. (used with ne) only, just; but, nothing but | |
| Je ne mange que des fruits. - I eat nothing but fruit. | |
| 9. conj. how (in rhetorical interjections) | |
| Que c'est beau! - How beautiful it is! | |
| Mais que t'es drôle, quoi. - Oh, how funny you are. | |
| 10. pron. (tlb, interrogative) | |
| 11. pron. (slightly formal, accusative) (The inanimate direct-object interrogative pronoun.) | |
| Que pensez-vous de cette peinture ? - What do you think of that painting? | |
| Qu'auriez-vous fait d'autre ? - What else would you have done? | |
| 12. pron. (slightly formal, nominative) (The inanimate subject or predicative interrogative pronoun.) | |
| Qu'est-il arrivé ? - What happened? | |
| Que me vaut cette visite ? - To what do I owe this visit? | |
| Que sommes-nous ? - What are we? | |
| 13. pron. (accusative, relative) (The direct object relative pronoun.) | |
| C'est un homme que je connais très bien. - He's a man whom I know very well. | |
| Je viens de lire la lettre que vous m'avez envoyée. - I've just read the letter that you sent me. | |
| il |
| 1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) | |
| Il est parti. - He left. | |
| 2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) | |
| Je cherche mon livre. Où est-il ? - I'm looking for my book. Where is it? | |
| 3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it | |
| Il pleut. - It’s raining. | |
| avait |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of avoir | |
| avoir |
| 1. n-m. asset, possession | |
| 2. v. to have (to own; to possess) | |
| J'aimerais avoir 20 dollars. - I would like to have 20 dollars. | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) | |
| J'ai parlé. - I have spoken, I spoke. | |
| Qu'est-ce que vous m'avez fait ? - What have you done to me? | |
| 4. v. to have (a condition) | |
| J'ai faim. - I have hunger. | |
| J'ai soif. - I have thirst. | |
| J'ai froid. - I have cold. | |
| J'ai chaud. - I have hot. | |
| J'ai la chiasse. - I have the shits. | |
| J'ai le rhume. - I have a cold. | |
| J'ai le SIDA. - I have AIDS. | |
| J'ai de la fièvre. - I've got a fever. | |
| 5. v. to have (a measure or age) | |
| Elle a 19 ans. - She has 19 years. | |
| 6. v. to have (to trick) | |
| Tu t'es fait avoir. - You've been had. | |
| 7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) | |
| avoir des relations sexuelles - to have sexual relations | |
| 8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive | |
| J'ai à vous parler. - I have to talk to you. | |
| trop |
| 1. adv. too; too much | |
| La soupe est trop chaude. - The soup is too hot. | |
| J'ai trop mangé. - I have eaten too much. | |
| 2. adv. (colloquial intensifier) very, really, so | |
| Elle est trop belle ! - She is so beautiful! | |
| pompé |
| 1. Participle. past participle of pomper | |
| 2. adj. pumped | |
| pomper |
| 1. v. to pump | |
| 2. v. (Europe, slang) to copy | |
| 3. v. to grow angrier as time goes on, especially if there are no further reasons to do so | |
| 4. v. (slang) to fellate (1) | |
| 5. v. (rare) to make pumped up | |
| Le |
| 1. Proper noun. surname, from=Vietnamese | |
| 2. art. the (definite article) | |
| Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning. | |
| 3. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English. | |
| L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind. | |
| 4. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc. | |
| Il s’est cassé la jambe. - He has broken his leg. | |
| 5. art. (before units) a, an | |
| Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure. - fifty kilometres an hour | |
| 6. pron. (direct object) him, it | |
| Où est Malik ? Je ne le vois pas. - Where is Malik? I don't see him. | |
| Mon sac ? Je vais le mettre dans la voiture. - My bag? I'm going to put it in the car. | |
| 7. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English | |
| Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi. - ... and he is it too | |
| jour |
| 1. n-m. day | |
| 2. n-m. daylight, light | |
| 3. n-m. opening, aperture | |
| 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 | |
| il |
| 1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) | |
| Il est parti. - He left. | |
| 2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) | |
| Je cherche mon livre. Où est-il ? - I'm looking for my book. Where is it? | |
| 3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it | |
| Il pleut. - It’s raining. | |
| 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. | |
| sentait |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of sentir | |
| sentir |
| 1. v. to smell (to have a certain odor) | |
| Ça sent bon. - It smells good. | |
| 2. v. to taste | |
| 3. v. to feel (physical perception) | |
| 4. v. to smell of, taste of | |
| Ce repas sent l’ail. - This meal smells/tastes of garlic. | |
| 5. v. to smack of; to indicate, foreshadow | |
| Ça sent la pluie. - It looks like rain. | |
| 6. v. to have the character, manner, feeling or appearance of; to give a feeling of | |
| 7. v. to feel, be aware of, be conscious of | |
| 8. v. to feel (in oneself) | |
| 9. v. to show, be felt (of effect, improvement etc.) | |
| 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' | |
| tête |
| 1. n-f. head (part of the body) | |
| J'ai mal à la tête - I have a headache | |
| 2. n-f. head (leader) | |
| 3. n-f. (soccer) header | |
| 4. n-f. (colloquial) a bright spark, a quick study | |
| Ce type-là, c'est une tête - This guy is a head | |
| 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) | |
| peu |
| 1. adv. little; not very much/many | |
| Il est peu intelligent. - He is little intelligent. | |
| Pour obtenir de bons prix certains négociateurs emploieraient parfois des méthodes peu conventionnelles - To get good prices, certain negotiators sometimes employ unconventional methods | |
| 2. n-m. few | |
| peu de gens sont d'accord - few people agree | |
| Beaucoup sont appelés mais peu sont élus. - Many are called but few are elected. | |
| Le peu de services qu’il a rendus ont paru mériter une récompense. - The few services he gave seemed deserving of a reward. | |
| Le peu de qualités dont il a fait preuve l’a fait éconduire. | |
| 3. n-m. little | |
| un peu - a little | |
| Je te donne le peu d'argent que j'ai - I'll give you the little money I have | |
| Je n'aime pas beaucoup ce café mais j'en ai bu un peu - I don't like this coffee very much but I drank some of it | |
| Les galaxies lenticulaires ont perdu ou transformé la majorité de leur matière interstellaire, si bien qu'on n'y observe que très peu de formation d'étoiles, alors même qu'elles peuvent conteni | |
| un peu |
| 1. adv. a little, a bit | |
| Il est un peu bizarre. - He's a bit weird. | |
| 2. adv. Used to soften an order. | |
| Viens un peu ici ! - Could you come here?! | |
| Regarde un peu dans la voiture s'il-te-plaît. - Take a bit of a look in the car, please. | |
| fiévreuse |
| 1. adj. feminine singular of fiévreux | |
| fiévreux |
| 1. adj. feverish, running a high body-temperature | |
| 2. adj. causing fever | |
| 3. adj. (figuratively) hot-tempered, agitated | |
| 4. n-m. a fever-sufferer, notably a feverish patient | |
| 5. n-m. (figuratively) a hothead, feverishly agitated person | |
| Le |
| 1. Proper noun. surname, from=Vietnamese | |
| 2. art. the (definite article) | |
| Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning. | |
| 3. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English. | |
| L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind. | |
| 4. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc. | |
| Il s’est cassé la jambe. - He has broken his leg. | |
| 5. art. (before units) a, an | |
| Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure. - fifty kilometres an hour | |
| 6. pron. (direct object) him, it | |
| Où est Malik ? Je ne le vois pas. - Where is Malik? I don't see him. | |
| Mon sac ? Je vais le mettre dans la voiture. - My bag? I'm going to put it in the car. | |
| 7. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English | |
| Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi. - ... and he is it too | |
| front |
| 1. n-m. forehead | |
| 2. n-m. (military) front, frontline | |
| chaud |
| 1. adj. warm, hot | |
| Attention, la poêle est chaude ! - Be careful; the pan is hot! | |
| 2. adj. (slang) horny, randy (showing interest in sexual activity) | |
| Cette meuf est chaude ! - That chick's horny as hell! | |
| 3. adj. (slang) enthusiastic, willing, up for | |
| T'es sûr que tu veux y aller ? Je suis vraiment pas chaud, perso ! - Are you sure you wanna go? I'm not really up for it, personally. | |
| 4. adj. (slang) hard | |
| Ça va être chaud de finir ça d'ici demain, je crois pas que j'aurai le temps... - Finishing that on time is gonna be hard, I don't think I'll have enough time... | |
| 5. adj. (slang) risky, dangerous, disreputable, dodgy | |
| Il vaut mieux éviter cette partie de la ville, ces quartiers sont chauds. - It's better to avoid that part of the city; those neighborhoods are sketchy. | |
| 6. n-m. heat, warmth | |
| 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 | |
| nerfs |
| 1. n. plural of nerf | |
| nerf |
| 1. n-m. (anatomy) nerve | |
| 2. n-m. (figuratively) force, power, strength | |
| Les nerfs, les garçons! On n'est pas sur un bateau de plaisance. - Put some muscle into it, boys! We are not on a pleasure boat! | |
| excités |
| 1. adj. masculine plural of excité | |
| 2. Participle. masculine plural of excité | |
| exciter |
| 1. v. to excite (to stir the emotions of) | |
| et |
| 1. conj. and | |
| 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' | |
| gorge |
| 1. n-f. throat | |
| 2. n-f. breast | |
| 3. n-f. gorge | |
| 4. v. first-person singular present of gorger | |
| 5. v. third-person singular present of gorger | |
| 6. v. second-person singular imperative of gorger | |
| gorger |
| 1. v. to gorge oneself (eat greedily) | |
| sèche |
| 1. adj. feminine singular of sec | |
| 2. n-f. mud flat | |
| 3. n-f. (colloquial) cigarette | |
| 4. v. first-person singular present of sécher | |
| 5. v. third-person singular present of sécher | |
| 6. v. second-person singular imperative of sécher | |
| sécher |
| 1. v. to dry | |
| 2. v. (informal) to play truant | |
| 3. v. to dry up, to run out of things to say | |
| 4. v. to fail | |
| sec |
| 1. adj. dry | |
| 2. adj. dried, having had its moisture evaporated | |
| des abricots secs - dried apricots | |
| du poisson sec - dried fish | |
| 3. adj. lean, thin, skinny | |
| 4. adj. (of alcohol) bitter, not sweet | |
| 5. adj. (of a person) harsh | |
| Désolé si j'ai été un peu sec. - Sorry if I was a bit harsh. | |
| 6. n-m. something that is dry | |
| Les bouches buvaient sec et parlaient beaucoup. | |
