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je
     1. pron. I
ai
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of avoir
           J'ai un chien. - I have a dog.
payé
     1. Participle. past participle of payer
     payer
          1. v. to pay (for)
                payer une amende - pay a fine
                payer un service - pay for a service
          2. v. to pay (someone)
                payer la caissière - pay the cashier
                Il m'a payé 3 euros. - He paid me 3 euros.
          3. v. to buy (something)
                Nous payons les courses. - We're buying the groceries.
          4. v. pay for (suffer the consequences of something)
                Tu vas payer pour ce que tu as fait à ma sœur. - You're going to pay for what you did to my sister.
          5. v. to pay off (to be fruitful)
                Mes efforts ont payé. - My efforts paid off.
payer
     1. v. to pay (for)
           payer une amende - pay a fine
           payer un service - pay for a service
     2. v. to pay (someone)
           payer la caissière - pay the cashier
           Il m'a payé 3 euros. - He paid me 3 euros.
     3. v. to buy (something)
           Nous payons les courses. - We're buying the groceries.
     4. v. pay for (suffer the consequences of something)
           Tu vas payer pour ce que tu as fait à ma sœur. - You're going to pay for what you did to my sister.
     5. v. to pay off (to be fruitful)
           Mes efforts ont payé. - My efforts paid off.
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
trois
     1. num. three
premières
     1. adj. feminine plural of premier
     premier
          1. adj. (ordinal) first
                Le premier élément de la liste est un zéro. - The first element of the list is zero.
          2. adj. prime (number etc)
          3. n-m. first
                Il est le premier. - He is the first.
          4. n-m. premier
          5. n-m. prime minister
          6. adv. first
                Il joue premier - he is playing first
traites
     1. n. plural of traite
     2. v. second-person singular present of traiter
     traiter
          1. v. to treat
                bien traiter quelqu'un - to treat someone well
          2. v. to take care (of)
                être traité pour, se faire traiter pour - to undergo treatment for (a condition)
          3. v. to process, spray, coat
                Les champs de blé étaient traités avec des pesticides par avion. - The wheat fields were aerially sprayed with pesticide.
          4. v. to process
                Les opérateurs de l'équipe de nuit traitent les tâches par lots. - The night shift operators process batch jobs.
          5. v. (indtr, ditr=1) to call, label (something negative)
                Ils l'ont traitée de menteuse. - They called her a liar.
                Il m'a traité de tous les noms. - He called me every name under the sun.
          6. v. (indtr, de) to deal with, handle (i.e. commerce, a subject or theme)
                Cet article traitera de sujets très sérieux. - This article will deal with very serious subjects.
et
     1. conj. and
je
     1. pron. I
ai
     1. v. first-person singular present indicative of avoir
           J'ai un chien. - I have a dog.
laissé
     1. Participle. past participle of laisser
protester
     1. v. to protest; to object
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
autres
     1. adj. plural of autre
     autre
          1. adj. other
                Donnez-moi un autre exemple. - Give me another example.
          2. adj. another
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.
prétexte
     1. n-m. excuse, pretext (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgement)
     2. v. first-person singular present of prétexter
     3. v. third-person singular present of prétexter
     4. v. second-person singular imperative of prétexter
     prétexter
          1. v. to give as an excuse
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.
sous prétexte que
     1. conj. arguing that, on the grounds that, on the pretext that
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
Pinard
     1. Proper noun. surname, xlit=Pinard
     2. n-m. (colloquial pejorative) plonk (cheap wine)
     3. n-m. (by extension) any wine
tournait
     1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of tourner
     tourner
          1. v. to turn (left, right etc.)
          2. v. to stir (e.g. ingredients)
          3. v. to tour, to go on tour
          4. v. (film) to film, to shoot a film
          5. v. (computing, ambitransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.)
                Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur. - To run a program on one's computer.
          6. v. to lathe
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