absolument |
1. adv. absolutely; totally; completely | |
on |
1. pron. (indefinite) one, people, you, someone (an unspecified individual) | |
On ne peut pas pêcher ici - You can’t fish here | |
2. pron. (personal, informal) we | |
On s’est amusés. - We had fun. | |
détend |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of détendre | |
détendre |
1. v. to relax | |
2. v. to loosen, to untighten | |
3. v. to help relax, to calm | |
dans |
1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state) | |
vieillir dans la misère - to grow old in poverty | |
être dans l'infanterie - to be in the infantry | |
avoir quelque chose dans la bouche - to have something in the mouth | |
dans les circonstances d'une pandémie - under the circumstances of a pandemic | |
Il habite dans le quartier le plus riche de Paris. - He lives in the richest district of Paris. | |
Il nage comme un poisson dans l'eau. - He swims like a fish in the water. | |
mettre l'argent dans la poche - to put money into one's pocket | |
Bienvenue dans le meilleur bar de tout Paris. - Welcome to the best bar in all of Paris. | |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes) | |
Aujourd'hui, je vais dans le Maine, et demain, je vais dans l’État de New York. - Today, I'm going to Maine, and tomorrow, I'm going to New York. | |
3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time) | |
Je serai prêt dans une heure. - I'll be ready in one hour. | |
Il arrivera dans trois jours. - He will arrive in three days. | |
4. prep. (with respect to time) during | |
dans un temps donné - during a given time | |
dans ma jeunesse - in my youth | |
5. prep. out of, from | |
boire dans une tasse - to drink from a cup | |
Il prend le beurre dans le réfrigérateur. - He takes the butter out of the fridge. | |
6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of | |
le marxisme dans Sartre - Marxism in the works of Sartre | |
7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les) | |
dans les trentes kilos - about thirty kilos | |
dans les dix euros - about ten euros | |
8. n. plural of dan | |
toutes |
1. adv. feminine plural of tout | |
2. det. feminine plural of tout | |
Mes sœurs sont toutes mariées | |
My sisters are all married | |
tout |
1. adv. all | |
2. det. all | |
3. n-m. whole, entirety, total | |
le tout | |
4. pron. everything | |
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 | |
rues |
1. n. plural of rue | |
ruer |
1. v. to kick with its hind legs | |
2. v. to hurl | |
3. v. to struggle, fight | |
4. v. to mob, jump on | |
rue |
1. n-f. street, road | |
2. n-f. rue (the plant) | |
3. v. first-person singular present of ruer | |
4. v. third-person singular present of ruer | |
5. v. second-person singular imperative of ruer | |
quand |
1. conj. when | |
Appelez-moi quand vous arriverez chez vous - Call me when you get home | |
2. adv. when | |
Quand est-il mort ? - When did he die? | |
Je ne sais pas quand est-ce qu'il est mort. - I don't know when it was that he died. | |
Quand est-ce que vous voulez partir ? - When do you want to leave? | |
Noël |
1. Proper noun. Christmas, Christmas time | |
2. Proper noun. given name, male, eq=Noel | |
3. Proper noun. (very rare) given name, female, more common in the form Noëlle | |
4. Proper noun. surname, from=patronymics | |
5. interj. (obsolete) huzzah, hurrah (cry of celebration in portrayals of medieval people) | |
6. n-m. Christmas gift | |
7. n-m. Christmas song | |
8. n-m. melody of a Christmas song | |
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 | |
passé |
1. n-m. past tense | |
2. n-m. past (opposite of future) | |
3. adj. past | |
4. adj. (used with certain temporal nouns) last | |
la semaine passée ; l'année passée, l’an passé ; l'hiver passé - last week; last year; last winter | |
5. Participle. past participle of passer | |
passer |
1. v. to go past | |
2. v. to cross (a border) | |
3. v. (legal) to pass | |
passer une loi - to pass a law | |
4. v. to spend (time) | |
J'ai passé les vacances en Espagne. - I spent the holidays in Spain. | |
J'ai passé une splendide soirée chez toi. - I had a great evening at your place. | |
5. v. to publish (a newspaper) | |
6. v. to take, to sit (an exam or test) | |
J'ai réussi l'examen que j'avais passé en avril. - I passed the exam that I took in April. | |
7. v. to pass (an exam or test) | |
Il est passé à l'examen. - He passed the exam. | |
8. v. (dated) to pass (an exam or test) | |
Il a passé l'examen. - He passed the exam. | |
9. v. (public transportation) to run | |
Le train passe toutes les vingt minutes. - The train runs every 20 minutes. | |
10. v. to exceed (a limit) | |
11. v. to percolate | |
12. v. to hand down, to pass on | |
13. v. to be allowed | |
14. v. to pass, to go (between two entities) | |
15. v. to show (a movie) | |
16. v. to go up (a grade) | |
17. v. to shift (change gear) | |
18. v. to go down | |
19. v. to go up | |
20. v. to stop by, to pop in | |
Il est passé nous voir. - He stopped by to see us. | |
Je vais y passer demain pour mes affaires. - I'm going to stop by there tomorrow for my things. | |
21. v. to pass away, to die | |
22. v. (music) to spin (e.g. a disk) | |
23. v. (TV) to show (be on television) | |
24. v. (sports) to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player) | |
25. v. (athletics) to pass (the relay baton) | |
26. v. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease) | |
27. v. to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else) | |
28. v. to wipe, rub | |
Elle passe de la crème sur son ventre. - She's rubbing cream on her belly. | |
29. v. to skip a go | |
30. v. to put (make something undergo something) | |
31. v. (card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn) | |
32. v. to take place, to happen, to come to pass | |
Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ici ? - What happened here? | |
33. v. to go by | |
34. v. to do without | |
Je ne peux pas me passer du café le matin. - I can't do without a cup of coffee in the morning. | |
35. v. to don | |
Il passa son pantalon. - He put on his pants. | |
36. v. (indtr, pour) to be thought to be, to be said to be, to be taken for | |
faire passer quelqu'un pour quelque chose - to make someone out to be something | |
se faire passer pour - to pass oneself off as, to pose as, to impersonate | |