porter |
1. v. to carry | |
2. v. to support, to bear | |
3. v. to wear | |
4. v. (indtr, sur) to be about, to concern | |
Sur quoi portait la question ? - What was the question concerning? | |
5. v. to feel, to carry one's self | |
Je me porte mieux. - I am feeling better. | |
Il se porte bien. - He's in good health. | |
6. n-m. porter (beer) | |
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) | |
sifflet |
1. n-m. whistle (instrument) | |
2. n-m. whistle (sound) | |
dans |
1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state) | |
vieillir dans la misère - to grow old in poverty | |
être dans l'infanterie - to be in the infantry | |
avoir quelque chose dans la bouche - to have something in the mouth | |
dans les circonstances d'une pandémie - under the circumstances of a pandemic | |
Il habite dans le quartier le plus riche de Paris. - He lives in the richest district of Paris. | |
Il nage comme un poisson dans l'eau. - He swims like a fish in the water. | |
mettre l'argent dans la poche - to put money into one's pocket | |
Bienvenue dans le meilleur bar de tout Paris. - Welcome to the best bar in all of Paris. | |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes) | |
Aujourd'hui, je vais dans le Maine, et demain, je vais dans l’État de New York. - Today, I'm going to Maine, and tomorrow, I'm going to New York. | |
3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time) | |
Je serai prêt dans une heure. - I'll be ready in one hour. | |
Il arrivera dans trois jours. - He will arrive in three days. | |
4. prep. (with respect to time) during | |
dans un temps donné - during a given time | |
dans ma jeunesse - in my youth | |
5. prep. out of, from | |
boire dans une tasse - to drink from a cup | |
Il prend le beurre dans le réfrigérateur. - He takes the butter out of the fridge. | |
6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of | |
le marxisme dans Sartre - Marxism in the works of Sartre | |
7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les) | |
dans les trentes kilos - about thirty kilos | |
dans les dix euros - about ten euros | |
8. n. plural of dan | |
sa |
1. det. (possessive) his, her, its, their, one's | |
Emma est allée chez sa sœur. - Emma went to her sister's house. | |
Pierre a perdu sa carte d'identité. - Pierre has lost his identity card. | |
Sa voiture est blanche. - Their car is white. | |
poche |
1. n-f. pocket (part of the clothing) | |
2. n-f. pouch (small bag, or part of small bag) | |
3. n-f. pouch (of a marsupial) | |
4. n-f. pocket (cavity) | |
5. n-f. poach (act of cooking by poaching) | |
6. n-f. the rendering or the act of rendering the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black | |
7. n-f. ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal) | |
8. v. first-person singular present of pocher | |
9. v. third-person singular present of pocher | |
10. v. second-person singular imperative of pocher | |
11. adj. (Quebec, informal) lame, boring, dull | |
12. adj. (Quebec, informal) bad, untalented, sucky | |
pocher |
1. v. (chiefly of an eye) to punch | |
pocher un œil à quelqu'un, donner un œil au beurre noir à quelqu'un - to punch someone in the eye, to give someone a black eye | |
2. v. (cooking) to poach; to cook by poaching | |
3. v. to sketch; to make a sketch of | |