| cette |
| 1. det. feminine singular of ce | |
| pièce |
| 1. n-f. room (in a house, etc) | |
| 2. n-f. piece | |
| 3. n-f. (money) coin | |
| 4. n-f. play (in a theatre) | |
| 5. n-f. (heraldry) ordinary | |
| 6. n-f. (legal) document, paper | |
| 7. n-f. patch | |
| est |
| 1. adj. east | |
| 2. n-m. east | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present 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 | |
| tombée |
| 1. n-f. fall (act of falling) | |
| 2. n-f. (Gastronomy) the arranging of a small quantity of something on a plate | |
| 3. Participle. feminine singular of tombé | |
| tomber |
| 1. v. to fall | |
| Un tamis placé à l'intérieur du dispositif empêchera les choses de tomber dans le tube. - A screen placed inside the device will keep things from falling into the tube. | |
| 2. v. to come down | |
| Laisse la pluie tomber sur nous et recouvre le pays de cette eau qui donne la vie. - Let the rains come down upon us and cover the land with life-giving water. | |
| 3. v. (indtr, sur) to bump into, to come across; to be received by (when making a telephone call) | |
| J'ai téléphoné à Robert mais je suis tombé sur Marie. - I phoned Robert but I got Marie. | |
| 4. v. (in idioms) to become, to get | |
| tomber amoureux - to fall in love | |
| tomber malade - to fall ill, to get sick | |
| tomber enceinte - to fall pregnant, to get pregnant | |
| sous |
| 1. prep. below, under | |
| 2. n. plural of sou | |
| 3. n. (slang) money | |
| sou |
| 1. n-m. (historical, numismatics) sou (old French coin) | |
| 2. n-m. (by extension, chiefly in the colloquial) money; cash | |
| Tu peux me prêter des sous ? - Can you lend me some cash? | |
| 3. n-m. (Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial) cent (one hundredth of a dollar) | |
| Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît. - That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please. | |
| 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 | |
| sifflets |
| 1. n. plural of sifflet | |
| sifflet |
| 1. n-m. whistle (instrument) | |
| 2. n-m. whistle (sound) | |
