| canal |
| 1. n-m. canal | |
| 2. n-m. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies) | |
| occupé |
| 1. adj. busy | |
| 2. adj. taken; occupied | |
| La place est occupée. (The seat is taken.) | |
| 3. Participle. past participle of occuper | |
| occuper |
| 1. v. to occupy, to take up | |
| 2. v. to employ | |
| 3. v. to be busy, to keep oneself busy | |
| 4. v. to take care of, to tend to, to deal with someone | |
| Moi, je m'occupe des clients. - Me, I'll take care of the clients. | |
| par |
| 1. prep. through | |
| par la fenêtre - through the window | |
| aller par le parc - go through the park | |
| 2. prep. by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction)) | |
| voyager par train - travel by train | |
| par surprise - by surprise | |
| le bateau est attaqué par des pirates. - the boat is being attacked by pirates. | |
| 3. prep. over (used to express direction) | |
| Viens par ici ! - Come over here! | |
| 4. prep. from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement) | |
| voir par devant - see from the back | |
| le liquide est arrivé par le robinet - the liquid arrived from the tap | |
| 5. prep. around, round (inside of) | |
| par tout le cinéma - all around the cinema | |
| 6. prep. on (situated on, used in certain phrases) | |
| par terre - on the ground | |
| 7. prep. on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs) | |
| par un beau jour - on a nice day | |
| par un soir - in one evening | |
| 8. prep. in | |
| marcher par deux - walk in twos | |
| 9. prep. per, a, an | |
| trois fois par semaine - three times a week | |
| 10. prep. out of (used to describe the reason for something) | |
| par pure colère - out of pure anger | |
| par tristesse - out of sadness | |
| 11. prep. for | |
| 12. n-m. (golf) par | |
| une |
| 1. num. feminine singular of un | |
| 2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
| 3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
| rivière |
| 1. n-f. a river (one that flows into a river, lake, bay, etc., but not into an ocean or sea) | |
| ou |
| 1. conj. or | |
| 2. conj. either...or | |
| Ou il est fou ou il est bête. - Either he's mad or he's stupid. | |
| 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 | |
