Š |
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Joseph |
1. Proper noun. Joseph (biblical figure) | |
2. Proper noun. given name, male, from=Hebrew, eq=Joseph | |
offre |
1. n-f. offer (something offered) | |
2. n-f. (economics) supply | |
l'offre et la demande - supply and demand | |
3. v. first-person singular present of offrir | |
4. v. third-person singular present of offrir | |
5. v. second-person singular imperative of offrir | |
offrir |
1. v. to offer; to provide | |
La tente n'offre donc que trĂšs peu d'abri aux membres d'Ă©quipage qui assurent la veille en surface. - The tent doesn't offer, therefore, very much shelter to the members of the team who keep wa | |
2. v. to give as a gift | |
3. v. to buy for oneself | |
4. v. to treat oneself | |
5. v. to open oneself up to (someone) | |
un |
1. art. an, a | |
2. num. number box, fr | |
3. num. one | |
4. pron. one, someone | |
5. n-m. one (the number or figure) | |
bouquet |
1. n-m. bouquet, bunch | |
2. n-m. a set or selection of something | |
3. n-m. aroma, bouquet (scent of wine) | |
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) | |
Ćuvres de Fermat - Fermatâs Works | |
Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friendâs wife. | |
le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
Ătes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
Ce fromage vient dâEspagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
Câest de lâouest de la France. - Itâs from the west of France. | |
Le train va de Paris Ă 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 boĂźte 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 Ă 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I wonât be free. | |
Je travaille de huit heures Ă midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
un groupe de cinq Ă 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 | |
Jâai arrĂȘtĂ© de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
Il continue de mâembĂȘter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
Elle mâa 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 dâautres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
Elle nâa pas de mĂšre. - She doesnât have a mother. | |
Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesnât eat meat. | |
Il nây a pas de problĂšmes. - There are no problems. | |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
roses |
1. n. plural of rose | |
2. adj. plural of rose | |
rose |
1. n-f. rose (flower) | |
2. n-f. rose window | |
3. n-f. (heraldry) rose | |
4. n-m. pink | |
5. adj. pink | |
6. adj. (humorous) pink, left-wing | |
7. adj. (colloquial) erotic, blue | |
8. adj. (in phrases) rosy, rose-tinted | |
Ă |
1. Notes. In Canada, Ă and a are not homophones, Ă a, a ÉË. | |
2. prep. to (destination) | |
aller au bout - go to the end / go all the way | |
Je vais Ă Paris. - I am going to Paris. | |
3. prep. to (until) | |
Le spectacle sera de 18h Ă 21h. - The show will be from 6 pm to 9 pm. | |
4. prep. on the, to (some directions) | |
Tournez Ă gauche ! - Turn to the left! | |
Ne tournez pas encore Ă droite ! - Don't turn to the right yet! | |
Le vent vire au nord. - The wind turns north. | |
L'Ă©cole est Ă gauche. - The school is on the left. | |
5. prep. at (said of a particular time) | |
Ă dix heures et quart - at quarter past ten | |
Je pars à cinq heures précises. - I am leaving at exactly five o'clock. | |
6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place) | |
Ă la maison - at home | |
Ă l'hĂŽtel - at the hotel | |
au comptoir du bar - at the bar | |
au bois - in the woods | |
J'habite Ă un demi-kilomĂštre d'ici. - I live half a kilometer from here. | |
La maison qui a été détruite hier soir ne se trouvait qu'à trois kilomÚtres de chez nous. - The house that was destroyed last night was only three kilometers from our place.à trois kilomÚtres d | |
7. prep. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations | |
au voleur ! - stop thief! | |
Ă l'assassin ! - murderer! | |
au meurtre ! - murder! murderer! | |
Ă moi ! - help! | |
Ă l'aide ! - help! | |
au secours ! - help! | |
au feu ! - fire! | |
aux armes ! - to arms! | |
Ă l'attaque ! - attack! forward! charge! up and at 'em! | |
Ă l'abordage ! - on board! | |
au boulot ! - get to work! let's get to work! | |
au travail ! - get to work! let's get to work! | |
8. prep. from (origin) | |
Nous prenons de l'eau au puits. - We get water from the well. | |
Je l'ai eu Ă la bibliothĂšque. - I got it from the library. | |
Voilà la femme à laquelle j'ai acheté mon chien - There's the woman I bought my dog from. | |
9. prep. of (belonging to) | |
C'est un ami Ă moi. - This is a friend of mine. | |
Cette voiture est Ă John. - This is John's car. | |
le chien Ă Marie - Mary's dog nonstandard: one normally would use de here | |
10. prep. till, until (used in farewells) | |
Ă plus tard - see you later | |
Ă bientĂŽt - see you soon | |
Salut, donc. Ă demain. - Bye, then. 'Til tomorrow / see you tomorrow. | |
11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with | |
12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for | |
moulin Ă poivre - pepper mill | |
sac Ă dos - backpack | |
boite Ă musique - music box | |
13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed) | |
l'Ă©quipe Ă battre - the team to beat | |
Il n'y a jamais grand-chose Ă faire par ici. - There's never much to do around here. | |
LĂ oĂč tu ne vois pas grand-chose, je ne trouve qu'une grande abondance de choses qui restent Ă faire. - Where you see nothing great, I only see a great abundance of things that need doing. | |
Il reste deux tĂąches Ă finir. - There are two things left to finish. | |
Il y a de la biĂšre Ă boire. - There's some beer to drink. | |
14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective | |
un animal Ă quatre pattes - a four-legged animal | |
une femme au visage pĂąle - a pale-faced woman | |
un homme Ă longue barbe - a long-bearded man â a man with a long beard | |
une chemise Ă manches courtes - a short-sleeved shirt | |
une maison aux murs de brique - a brick-walled house / a house with brick walls | |
15. prep. by | |
peu Ă peu - bit by bit | |
petit Ă petit - little by little | |
minute Ă minute - minute by minute | |
jour Ă jour - day by day | |
un Ă un - one by one | |
16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number) | |
six Ă sept personnes - six or seven people | |
de vingt Ă trente ans - from twenty to thirty years | |
tous les cinq Ă six ans - every five or six years | |
17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb. | |
mettre le feu Ă - to set fire to | |
clouer le bec Ă - to shut (someone) up | |
donner la chasse Ă - to give chase to | |
18. prep. with | |
son |
1. n-m. sound | |
Le son de ce piano est agréable. (The sound of this piano is nice.) | |
2. det. (possessive) his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel) | |
Elle a perdu son chapeau. - She lost her hat. | |
Il a perdu son chapeau. - He lost his hat. | |
J'aime son amie. - I like his/her girlfriend. | |
La décision a été prise pendant son absence. - The decision was taken in her/his absence. | |
3. n-m. bran | |
Ceci est du pain de son. - This bread is done with bran. | |
amoureuse |
1. adj. feminine singular of amoureux | |
2. n-f. female equivalent of amoureux | |
amoureux |
1. adj. in love | |
Je suis amoureux de toi (I'm in love with you) | |
2. n-m. lover | |
3. Paronyms. rel4, fr | |
4. Paronyms. , Amouroux | |
qui |
1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom | |
Tu as vu qui ? - Who have you seen? | |
Je ne sais pas qui vous ĂȘtes. - I don't know who you are. | |
2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that | |
La personne qui parle connait bien son sujet. - The person who speaks knows his/her subject well. | |
Cette voiture bleue qui passe me plait beaucoup. - This blue car which is passing I like a lot. | |
Jâaime les chiens qui sont calmes. - I like dogs that are quiet. | |
Un homme Ă qui jâai parlĂ©. - A man to whom I spoke/have spoken. | |
Si lugubre que fĂ»t lâappartement, câĂ©tait un paradis pour qui revenait du lycĂ©e. - Gloomy as the apartment was, it was still a paradise for those who came back from school. | |
Rira bien qui rira le dernier. - Who laughs last laughs well. | |
3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if | |
Qui elle en a, ça va faire. - If she has any, that will do. | |
Ă©tend |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of Ă©tendre | |
Ă©tendre |
1. v. to stretch (the limbs) | |
2. v. to spread | |
3. v. to hang out (washing) | |
4. v. to extend | |
5. v. to enlarge, expand | |
6. v. to expand upon; to discuss in greater detail | |
7. v. to dilute; to water down | |
la |
1. art. the (definite article) | |
2. pron. her, it (direct object) | |
OĂč est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her. | |
Prends cette boĂźte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner. | |
3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' | |
main |
1. n-f. hand | |
2. n-f. (soccer) handball | |
3. n-f. (poker) hand | |
pour |
1. prep. for (meant for, intended for) (followed by a noun or pronoun) | |
J'ai un cadeau pour toi. - I've got a gift for you. | |
2. prep. for (in support of) | |
Pourquoi voter pour lui ? - Why did you vote for him? | |
3. prep. for (as a consequence for) | |
Il faut le punir pour ses crimes. - He must be punished for his crimes. | |
4. prep. for (an intended destination) | |
SĂ©bastien est parti pour Londres. - SĂ©bastien left for London. | |
5. prep. to (to bring about an intended result) (followed by a verb in the infinitive) | |
Je veux chanter pour te faire revenir. - I want to sing to make you come back. | |
6. prep. for, to (according to) | |
Pour moi, ce film est trop irréaliste. - For me, this film is too unrealistic. | |
Le |
1. Proper noun. surname, from=Vietnamese | |
2. art. the (definite article) | |
Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning. | |
3. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English. | |
L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind. | |
4. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc. | |
Il sâest cassĂ© la jambe. - He has broken his leg. | |
5. art. (before units) a, an | |
Cinquante kilomĂštres Ă lâheure. - fifty kilometres an hour | |
6. pron. (direct object) him, it | |
OĂč est Malik ? Je ne le vois pas. - Where is Malik? I don't see him. | |
Mon sac ? Je vais le mettre dans la voiture. - My bag? I'm going to put it in the car. | |
7. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English | |
Je suis petit et lui, il lâest aussi. - ... and he is it too | |
prendre |
1. v. to take | |
prends ma main - take my hand | |
2. v. to eat; to drink | |
elle prend un café - she is drinking a coffee | |
3. v. to get; to buy | |
Je vais prendre le plat du jour. - I'll get the dish of the day. | |
4. v. to rob; to deprive | |
prendre quelque chose Ă quelqu'un | |
5. v. to make | |
prendre une décision - to make a decision | |
prendre des mesures draconiennes - to take draconian measures | |
6. v. to catch, to work, to start | |
le feu ne prend pas - the fire won't start | |
la sauce ne prend pas - the sauce isn't thickening | |
ma mayonnaise ne prend pas - my mayonnaise isn't setting | |
ça ne prend pas avec moi - that won't wash with me | |
7. v. to get (something) caught (in), to jam | |
je me suis pris la main dans la porte - I caught my hand in the door | |
je me suis pris la porte dans la figure | |
8. v. indtr, Ă | |
Qu'est-ce qui t'a pris ? Qu'est-ce qui t'est passĂ© par la tĂȘte ? - What were you thinking? What got into you? What came over you? | |
Qu'est-ce qui lui a pris ? Quelle mouche l'a piqué ? - What was he thinking? What got into him? | |
bien lui en prit | |
mal lui en prit | |
9. v. to start having a negative feeling towards someone | |
prendre en aversion | |
prendre en grippe | |
prendre en dégoût | |
10. v. (followed by a partitive, in various idiomatic expressions) to gain | |
prendre de la vitesse - to gain speed | |
prendre du galon - to gain a promotion | |
prendre de l'avance - to gain ground | |
prendre du retard - to fall behind schedule, to run late, to drop behind | |
prendre de la hauteur - to gain some perspective | |
prendre du recul - to take a step back | |
prendre de la bouteille - to gain experience | |
en prendre de la graine - to take away a lesson | |
prendre du poids - to gain weight | |
prendre de la masse - to build muscle | |
prendre de la brioche, prendre du bide, prendre du ventre - to get a paunch | |
prendre du bouchon | |
prendre de l'Ă©lan - to gain momentum | |
prendre de l'Ăąge | |
prendre de la valeur - to gain value | |
prendre de l'importance | |
11. v. (colloquial ; impersonal) to take (a certain amount of time) | |
Ăa va me prendre au moins deux heures pour le mettre Ă jour. | |
12. v. (colloquial ; impersonal ; by extension) to take (a certain number or amount of) | |
Pour finir dans deux heures, ça prend trois personnes. - To finish in two hours, it'll take three people. | |
13. v. (impersonal) to come over (to arise in and gain some control over one's thoughts and/or actions) | |
il prend quelque chose Ă quelqu'un - something comes over someone | |
Il lui prend une fantaisie de mettre le feu Ă la maison. | |