il |
1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) |
2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) |
3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it |
y |
1. pron. there (at a place) |
2. pron. there, thither (to there) |
3. pron. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à. |
4. pron. With verbs: see for verbs which use this structure. |
5. pron. With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology. |
6. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) he: Alternative form of il |
7. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) they: Alternative form of ils |
8. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) they: Alternative form of elles |
a |
1. n. a, the name of the Latin-script letter A |
2. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) alt form-lite, elle, , she |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of avoir |
avoir |
1. n-m. asset, possession |
2. v. to have (to own; to possess) |
3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) |
4. v. to have (a condition) |
5. v. to have (a measure or age) |
6. v. to have (to trick) |
7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) |
8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive |
il y a |
1. v. singular present indicative of y avoir: there is, there are |
2. prep. ago |
y a |
1. v. (colloquial)contraction of il y a |
y avoir |
1. v. (impersonal, transitive) there be |
de |
1. prep. of (expresses belonging) |
2. prep. of (used to express property or association) |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) |
4. prep. of (indicates an amount) |
5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word |
6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) |
7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive |
8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) |
9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame |
nombreuses |
1. adj. feminine plural of nombreux |
nombreux |
1. adj. numerous, many |
choses |
1. n. plural of chose; things. |
chose |
1. n-f. thing |
à |
1. Notes. In Canada, à and a are not homophones, à a, a ɑː. |
2. prep. to (destination) |
3. prep. to (until) |
4. prep. on the, to (some directions) |
5. prep. at (said of a particular time) |
6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place) |
7. prep. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations |
8. prep. from (origin) |
9. prep. of (belonging to) |
10. prep. till, until (used in farewells) |
11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with |
12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for |
13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed) |
14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective |
15. prep. by |
16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number) |
17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb. |
18. prep. with |
faire |
1. v. to do |
2. v. to make |
3. v. to say (of a person), to go (of an animal) |
4. v. to make (cause someone or something to do something) |
5. v. to act like (something) |
6. v. (impersonal) to be (of the weather or various situations) |
7. v. to do, to make (oneself) |
8. v. to be, to get (used for a passive action) |
9. v. to ripen (of fruit), to mature |
10. v. to become used to, to get used to |
11. v. (slang) to do (to have sex with) |
12. v. (informal, intransitive) to defecate; (metaphorically) to shit oneself (to be terrified) |
13. v. to become, to get |