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dû |
1. n-m. what is owed, what is due, money's worth | |
2. Participle. past participle of devoir | |
Elle a dû rentrer chez elle en marchant. - She had to walk home. | |
devoir |
1. n-m. duty | |
manquer à son devoir, manquer à tous ses devoirs - to fail in one's duty, duties | |
Il est de mon devoir de protéger le roi. - It is my duty to protect the king. | |
2. n-m. exercise, assignment (set for homework) | |
3. v. must, to have to, should (as a requirement) | |
Les auteurs d'un dictionnaire doivent déterminer au départ les catégories de mots à retenir, en fonction des limites imposées par l'éditeur et du public visé. - The authors of a dictionary have | |
4. v. (present) must | |
5. v. (conditional) should | |
6. v. must, to do or have with certainty | |
7. v. to owe (money, obligation and etc) | |
8. v. (literary, intransitive, in imperfect subjunctive, with inversion of subject) (even) though it be necessary (+ infinitive) | |
9. v. to have a duty to | |
déplacer |
1. v. to move | |
2. v. to go around, to move about | |
3. v. to come over, to go over to, to make a house call, as to travel to perform some work | |
tous |
1. pron. all | |
Ils étaient tous là. - They were all there. | |
2. pron. everybody | |
Tous étaient là. - Everybody was there. | |
3. adj. masculine plural of tout | |
Je me brosse les dents tous les jours. - I brush my teeth all the days. | |
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 | |
meubles |
1. v. second-person singular present of meubler | |
2. n. plural of meuble | |
3. n. furniture | |
meubler |
1. v. to furnish | |
2. v. to break the silence | |
meuble |
1. n-m. piece of furniture | |
2. n-m. (heraldry) charge | |
3. n-m. (legal) piece of personal property | |
4. adj. soft, pliable, malleable | |
5. v. first-person singular present of meubler | |
6. v. third-person singular present of meubler | |
7. v. second-person singular imperative of meubler | |
écritoire |
1. n-f. writing case | |
y |
1. pron. there (at a place) | |
Il est dans la maison. Il y est. - He is in the house. He is there. | |
2. pron. there, thither (to there) | |
Nous allons au Mexique. Nous y allons. - We are going to Mexico. We are going there. | |
3. pron. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à. | |
Je pense à mon pays. J'y pense. - I think about my country. I think about it. | |
4. pron. With verbs: see for verbs which use this structure. | |
5. pron. With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology. | |
personnes y nommées - Persons named there(in) | |
procédures y afférentes - Related procedures | |
documents y relatifs - Related documents | |
eaux y affluentes - Tributary waters | |
6. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) he: Alternative form of il | |
7. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) they: Alternative form of ils | |
8. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) they: Alternative form of elles | |
comprise |
1. Participle. feminine singular of compris | |
comprendre |
1. v. to understand, comprehend | |
J'ai compris maintenant. - I understand now. (lit. I have understood now.) | |
Il est trop intelligent pour ne pas comprendre ce que vous lui avez dit. | |
Est-ce que vous avez bien compris ? - Did you understand? | |
„Est-ce que tu comprends ce qu'il dit ?” „Je ne comprends même pas ce que je dis moi.” - "Do you understand what he's saying?" "I don't even understand what I'm saying.". | |
2. v. to comprise, include | |
3. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, reciprocal) to know each other well or intimately | |
Quoique leurs goûts fussent différents, ces deux amis se comprenaient à merveille. | |
4. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be comprehensible or conceivable | |