| familier |
| 1. adj. familiar (known to one) | |
| 2. adj. (linguistics) familiar, informal, colloquial (lexicon) | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| la |
| 1. art. the (definite article) | |
| 2. pron. her, it (direct object) | |
| Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her. | |
| Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner. | |
| 3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' | |
| contrainte |
| 1. n-f. constraint | |
| 2. n-f. requirement, demand | |
| 3. n-f. (physics) stress | |
| 4. Participle. feminine singular of contraint | |
| contraindre |
| 1. v. to constrain | |
| 2. v. to compel; force | |
