natation |
1. n-f. swimming, natation | |
style |
1. n-m. style (manner of doing something) | |
2. n-m. (botany) style (of a flower) | |
3. n-m. fashion, trend, style | |
4. n-m. (colloquial) style (personal comportment) | |
5. n-m. flair | |
6. n-m. (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined | |
7. n-m. gnomon, style (needle of a sundial) | |
8. n-m. (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets) | |
9. n-m. complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline) | |
10. n-m. sort, type; category of things | |
styler |
1. v. to style; to dress | |
de |
1. prep. of (expresses belonging) | |
Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France. | |
2. prep. of (used to express property or association) | |
Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works | |
Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife. | |
le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France. | |
Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. - The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux. | |
4. prep. of (indicates an amount) | |
5 kilos de pommes. - 5 kilograms of apples. | |
Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
Une portion de frites - A portion of fries | |
5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word | |
Un jus de pomme - Apple juice | |
Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
Une boîte de nuit - A nightclub | |
Un chien de garde - A guarddog | |
Une voiture de sport - A sportscar | |
Un stade de football - A football stadium | |
6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) | |
De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free. | |
Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
un groupe de cinq à huit personnes - a group of from five to eight people | |
7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive | |
J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
Elle m’a dit de venir. - She told me to come. | |
Nous vous exhortons de venir. - We urge you to come. | |
8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) | |
Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. - Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%. | |
9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. | |
Ce sont de bons enfants. - They are good children. | |
Il y a d’autres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother. | |
Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat. | |
Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems. | |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
nage |
1. n-f. swimming | |
2. v. first-person singular present of nager | |
3. v. third-person singular present of nager | |
4. v. second-person singular imperative of nager | |
nager |
1. v. to swim | |
ventrale |
1. adj. feminine singular of ventral | |
ventral |
1. adj. ventral | |
où |
1. adv. where (interrogative) | |
Où est la gare? - Where is the station? | |
Où tu vas, là ? - Hey, where are you going? | |
Comment savez-vous où j'habite ? - How do you know where I live? | |
2. adv. where (relative pronoun) | |
3. adv. at that time; when | |
Je ne l'ai pas vu aussi heureux depuis le jour où il est devenu père. - I haven't seen him so happy since the day when he became a father. | |
4. adv. (poetic) whither, to where | |
Un ciel plus pur et des dieux meilleurs, je t'offre à Rome où je me rends. - A purer heaven and better gods I offer you in Rome, whither I go. | |
les |
1. art. plural of le: the | |
2. art. plural of la: the | |
3. pron. plural of le: them | |
4. pron. plural of la: them | |
bras |
1. n-m. arm | |
et |
1. conj. and | |
les |
1. art. plural of le: the | |
2. art. plural of la: the | |
3. pron. plural of le: them | |
4. pron. plural of la: them | |
jambes |
1. n. plural of jambe | |
jambe |
1. n-f. leg | |
Il marche sur ses deux jambes. - He walks with his two legs. | |
par-dessus la jambe - off-handedly | |
agissent |
1. v. third-person plural present of agir | |
2. v. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of agir | |
agir |
1. v. to act | |
Il faut agir pour lutter contre la pauvreté. - We must act in order to fight poverty. | |
2. v. to act, to do (something) | |
Il n’agit pas comme il devrait. - He’s not doing as he should. | |
3. v. to act, behave | |
Vous agissez en enfants. - You’re acting like children. | |
Il agit comme un fou. - He’s acting like a madman. | |
4. v. to act on | |
5. v. (legal, followed by contre) prosecute, sue | |
6. v. (impersonal, reflexive, followed by de) to be, be all about, be a question of | |
Dans le livre il s’agit d’une femme perdue. - The book is about a lost woman. | |
Il s’agit de vous en tirer honorablement. - It’s all about you getting out of there honorably. | |
Dans la vie; il s’agit de faire son devoir. - Life is all about doing your duty. | |
Il s’agissait de choisir entre les ducs. - It was about choosing between the two dukes. | |
symétriquement |
1. adv. symmetrically | |