héraldique |
1. adj. heraldric | |
2. n-f. heraldry (the profession of devising and blazoning arms) | |
Champagne |
1. Proper noun. Champagne, a region and former countship in the northeast of France, the terroir of the wine champagne | |
2. n-m. champagne, , wine from the Champagne region of France | |
3. n-m. (non-European French, informal) sparkling wine, generic champagne | |
4. n-m. (heraldic charge) base; bottom third of a coat of arms | |
5. n-f. (rare) an expanse of flat and open cultivated earth | |
réduite |
1. Participle. feminine singular of réduit | |
réduire |
1. v. to reduce | |
2. v. to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures etc.) | |
3. v. (indtr, à) to reduce (someone) to | |
Je les ai réduits en esclavage. I reduced them to slavery. | |
4. v. (indtr, en) to reduce (something) to | |
La maison fut réduite en cendres. The house was reduced to ashes. | |
5. v. (medicine) to reduce, set | |
6. v. (chemistry, cooking) to reduce | |
7. v. (military) to capture (place), quell (opposition etc.) | |
8. v. (indtr, à, .takes a reflexive pronoun) to amount to, to come down to | |
Les copules, qui se réduisent au rôle de lien syntaxique entre sujet et attribut en estompant leur sémantique propre, sont souvent des verbes d'état. - | |
dont |
1. pron. of/from whom/which, whose | |
Vous rappelez-vous ce dont je vous ai parlé ? - Do you remember that of which we spoke? | |
Il n’est rien dont je sois encore certain. - There is nothing of which I am still certain. | |
Quel est le pays dont provient cette marchandise suspecte ? - What is the country from which the suspicious merchandise comes? | |
J’ai décidé d’abandonner l’affaire dont je vous ai entretenu il y a quelques jours. - I decided to abandon the matter of which we have been speaking for a few days. | |
La maladie dont il est mort porte un nom imprononçable. - The disease of which he died has an unpronounceable name. | |
Les pays dont nous n’avons point de connaissance sont les destinations privilégiées des grands aventuriers. - The countries of which we have little knowledge are the privileged destinations of | |
Ces étoiles — dont le nom m’échappe — sont les plus brillantes de la voûte céleste. - These stars, whose names escape me, are the brightest in the skies. | |
Le Québec est une province du Canada dont les frontières correspondent au territoire de la nation québécoise. - Quebec is a province of Canada whose borders correspond to the Quebecois nation. | |
2. pron. (sometimes) by which | |
Le coup dont il fut frappé. - The blow by which he was struck. | |
3. pron. Denotes a part of a set, may be translated as "including" or such as in some situations. | |
Il a eu dix enfants, dont neuf filles. - He had ten children, nine of them girls. | |
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' | |
ligne |
1. n-f. line | |
2. n-f. route, course, service, line | |
3. n-f. cable | |
4. n-f. (computing) row (in a table) | |
5. n-f. (body shape) figure | |
ligner |
1. v. to line, make a line (mark with a line) | |
2. v. to line (add lines to a surface) | |
3. v. (nautical, rare) to fold up (a sail) | |
4. v. (fishing) to fish with a line | |
supérieure |
1. adj. feminine singular of supérieur | |
supérieur |
1. adj. superior | |
2. adj. upper, senior | |
3. adj. (followed by à) above; higher than | |
4. adj. (math) greater than or equal to. ≥, ⩾. | |
5. n-m. senior (boss) | |
Je ne plaisante pas avec lui - c'est mon supérieur - I don't make fun of him - he's my senior | |
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 | |
droite |
1. adj. feminine singular of droit | |
2. n-f. (geometry) straight line | |
3. n-f. (politics) the right, right wing | |
4. n-f. right, right-hand side | |
5. n-f. (boxing) right-handed punch | |
droit |
1. n-m. right (entitlement) | |
J'ai le droit de dormir. - I have the right to sleep. | |
2. n-m. law (study of law) | |
Il est étudiant en droit. - He is a law student. | |
3. n-m. (geometry) right angle | |
Un angle de trois droits. - An angle of 270 degrees. | |
4. adj. right (on the right-hand side) | |
Donne-moi ta main droite. - Give me your right hand. | |
5. adj. straight (not bent or crooked) | |
Une rue droite. - A straight road. | |
6. adj. (geometry) right (of an angle) | |
7. adv. straight, straight on | |
8. adv. upright, straight, not bent or crooked | |
Tenez votre tête droit. - Keep your head straight. | |