| botanique |
| 1. adj. (relational) of botany; botanical | |
| 2. n-f. botany | |
| qui |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom | |
| Tu as vu qui ? - Who have you seen? | |
| Je ne sais pas qui vous êtes. - I don't know who you are. | |
| 2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that | |
| La personne qui parle connait bien son sujet. - The person who speaks knows his/her subject well. | |
| Cette voiture bleue qui passe me plait beaucoup. - This blue car which is passing I like a lot. | |
| J’aime les chiens qui sont calmes. - I like dogs that are quiet. | |
| Un homme à qui j’ai parlé. - A man to whom I spoke/have spoken. | |
| Si lugubre que fût l’appartement, c’était un paradis pour qui revenait du lycée. - Gloomy as the apartment was, it was still a paradise for those who came back from school. | |
| Rira bien qui rira le dernier. - Who laughs last laughs well. | |
| 3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if | |
| Qui elle en a, ça va faire. - If she has any, that will do. | |
| 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 | |
| disposé |
| 1. adj. organized, placed in a certain fashion, arranged | |
| 2. adj. willing, ready to do (something), prepared | |
| 3. Participle. past participle of disposer | |
| disposer |
| 1. v. to organize, to arrange, to distribute in a certain fashion | |
| 2. v. to prepare (something) for an occasion, to incline (someone) towards | |
| 3. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to prepare oneself for, to be about to | |
| 4. v. to have at one's disposal or available; to have access to | |
| 5. v. to use someone to do one's biddings | |
| 6. v. to leave, to go | |
| Merci, vous pouvez disposer. - Thank you, you may leave. | |
| 7. v. to make use of one's right of dismembering, selling or otherwise dispose of a certain owned item | |
| 8. v. to prepare psychologically | |
| 9. v. to take measures, to decree | |
| en |
| 1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes) | |
| J'habite en Angleterre. - I live in England. | |
| 2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes) | |
| Il est allé en France. - He went to France. | |
| 3. prep. by (used to indicate means) | |
| aller en bus - go by bus | |
| partir en voiture - leave by car | |
| 4. prep. as | |
| Il me traite en ami. - He treats me as a friend. | |
| habillé en père Noël - dressed as Father Christmas | |
| 5. prep. at (used to describe an ability) | |
| fort en histoire - good at history | |
| 6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition) | |
| une chaise en hêtre - a chair made of beech/a beech chair | |
| une fourchette en métal - a fork made of metal/a metal fork | |
| 7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years)) | |
| en 1993 - in 1993 | |
| en janvier - in January | |
| en septembre 2001 - in September 2001 | |
| 8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while | |
| 9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something | |
| C'est en trichant qu'il est devenu champion. - It was by cheating that he became champion. | |
| 10. prep. in (used to describe color) | |
| une photo en noir et blanc - a photo in black and white | |
| 11. prep. in (used to describe feelings) | |
| en détresse - in distress | |
| 12. prep. in (as part of something) | |
| en équipe - on a team | |
| 13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.)) | |
| Essaies-en ! - Try some (of it / them)! | |
| Tu as combien de livres ? J'en ai trois. - How many books do you have? I have three (of them). | |
| Y a-t-il beaucoup de pièces ? Oui. Il y en a beaucoup. - Are there many rooms? Yes, there are many (of them). | |
| Martin a trois sandwichs, mais j'en ai seulement deux. - Martin has three sandwiches, but I have only two (of them). | |
| Il y en a combien ? - How many of them are there? | |
| Je bois de l'alcool parce que j'en ai besoin - I drink alcohol because I need (of) it. | |
| 14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici. | |
| Est-ce qu'elle vient de Barcelone ? Oui, elle en vient. - Does she come from Barcelona? Yes, she comes (from there). | |
| rayons |
| 1. n. plural of rayon | |
| 2. v. first-person plural present indicative of rayer | |
| 3. v. first-person plural imperative of rayer | |
| rayer |
| 1. v. to line, to make lines on, to mark with lines (e.g. a piece of paper) | |
| 2. v. to cross out, to cross off (remove something from a list) | |
| Quand il arrivera, tu pourras rayer son nom. - When he arrives, you can cross off his name. | |
| 3. v. to wipe off (remove) | |
| Je l'ai rayé du tableau. - I wiped it off the board. | |
| J'ai rayé de la carte. - I wiped off the map | |
| rayon |
| 1. n-m. ray, beam (of light, etc.) (datedef, from 1474) | |
| 2. n-m. spoke (of wheel) (datedef, from 1538) | |
| 3. n-m. (geometry) radius datedef, from 1639 | |
| 4. n-m. honeycomb (datedef, from 1538) | |
| 5. n-m. shelf (for books, merchandise, etc.) (datedef, from 1429) | |
| 6. n-m. department (of department store), section (of shop) (datedef, from 1841) | |
| 7. n-m. (agriculture) row (for planting seeds in) | |
