après |
1. prep. after, later than in time. | |
On mange après avoir bu. - We eat after we drink. | |
après la fête - after the party | |
2. prep. after, coming for, trying to get (someone). | |
3. adv. afterwards | |
On va au cinéma après. - We'll go to the cinema afterwards. | |
4. adv. (Louisiana French) (Indicates the continuous aspect) | |
avoir |
1. n-m. asset, possession | |
2. v. to have (to own; to possess) | |
J'aimerais avoir 20 dollars. - I would like to have 20 dollars. | |
3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) | |
J'ai parlé. - I have spoken, I spoke. | |
Qu'est-ce que vous m'avez fait ? - What have you done to me? | |
4. v. to have (a condition) | |
J'ai faim. - I have hunger. | |
J'ai soif. - I have thirst. | |
J'ai froid. - I have cold. | |
J'ai chaud. - I have hot. | |
J'ai la chiasse. - I have the shits. | |
J'ai le rhume. - I have a cold. | |
J'ai le SIDA. - I have AIDS. | |
J'ai de la fièvre. - I've got a fever. | |
5. v. to have (a measure or age) | |
Elle a 19 ans. - She has 19 years. | |
6. v. to have (to trick) | |
Tu t'es fait avoir. - You've been had. | |
7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) | |
avoir des relations sexuelles - to have sexual relations | |
8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive | |
J'ai à vous parler. - I have to talk to you. | |
regardé |
1. Participle. past participle of regarder | |
regarder |
1. v. to look at | |
Tu regardes quoi ? - What are you looking at? | |
2. v. to watch | |
Je regarde un film à la TV si ça t'intéresse. - I'm watching a film on TV if you're interested. | |
3. v. to face | |
4. v. to concern (be associated with) | |
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 | |
appareils |
1. n. plural of appareil | |
appareil |
1. n-m. apparatus, device | |
2. n-m. telephone | |
Pourrais-je parler avec monsieur Tremblay, s'il vous plaît ? / À l'appareil. - t = May I speak with Mr. Tremblay, please? / Speaking. | |
3. n-m. aircraft | |
4. n-m. camera (for photographs) | |
5. n-m. An arrangement of people, decorations, etc., for purposes of pomp. | |
6. n-m. (anatomy) a system (of organs) | |
7. n-m. (culinary) a preparation that is a ready-to-use mixture of the basic ingredients for making a dish | |
quelques |
1. adj. plural of quelque | |
Les rayons des céphéides classiques sont de quelques dizaines à quelques centaines fois celui du Soleil. - The radii of the classical Cepheids are from some tens to some hundred times that of t | |
instants |
1. n. plural of instant | |
instant |
1. adj. (literary) pressing, insistent | |
2. n-m. instant, minute, moment | |
en un instant - in an instant | |
il n'y a pas un instant à perdre - there's not a moment to spare | |
ne durer qu'un instant - to last only an instant | |
ne pas douter de quelque chose un seul instant - not to doubt something for a minute | |
il ne faut qu'un instant pour le faire - it takes only a minute to do | |
je |
1. pron. I | |
vis |
1. n-f. screw (metal fastener) | |
2. v. first-person singular present indicative of vivre | |
3. v. second-person singular present indicative of vivre | |
4. v. second-person singular present imperative of vivre | |
5. v. first-person singular past historic of voir | |
6. v. second-person singular past historic of voir | |
vivre |
1. v. to live | |
vivre comme un roi - live like a king | |
2. v. to experience | |
voir |
1. v. to see (visually) | |
Je vois ma mère là-bas. - I see my mother over there. | |
On ne voit pas souvent de la neige par ici. - One doesn't often see snow around here. | |
2. v. to see (to understand) | |
Tu vois que tu avais tort ? - Do you see that you were wrong? | |
3. v. to see (to visit, to go and see) | |
4. adv. (Louisiana French) please (used to mark the imperative) | |
Viens voir ici. - Come here please. | |
que |
1. conj. that (introduces a subordinate noun clause and connects it to its parent clause) | |
Je vois que tu parles bien français. - I see that you speak French well. | |
2. conj. Substitutes for another, previously stated conjunction. | |
Si le temps est beau et que tout le monde est d'accord, nous mangerons en plein air. - If the weather is nice and if everyone likes the idea, we'll eat outside. | |
3. conj. when, no sooner | |
Il était à peine parti qu’elle a téléphoné à la police. - No sooner had he left when she called the police. | |
4. conj. (Links two noun phrases in apposition forming a clause without a (finite) verb, such that the complement acts as predicate.) | |
5. conj. introduces a comparison | |
6. conj. (comparisons of superiority or inferiority) than | |
Il est plus grand que son père. - He is taller than his father. | |
7. conj. (comparisons of equality) as | |
Elle est aussi intelligente que toi. - She is as smart as you. | |
8. conj. (used with ne) only, just; but, nothing but | |
Je ne mange que des fruits. - I eat nothing but fruit. | |
9. conj. how (in rhetorical interjections) | |
Que c'est beau! - How beautiful it is! | |
Mais que t'es drôle, quoi. - Oh, how funny you are. | |
10. pron. (tlb, interrogative) | |
11. pron. (slightly formal, accusative) (The inanimate direct-object interrogative pronoun.) | |
Que pensez-vous de cette peinture ? - What do you think of that painting? | |
Qu'auriez-vous fait d'autre ? - What else would you have done? | |
12. pron. (slightly formal, nominative) (The inanimate subject or predicative interrogative pronoun.) | |
Qu'est-il arrivé ? - What happened? | |
Que me vaut cette visite ? - To what do I owe this visit? | |
Que sommes-nous ? - What are we? | |
13. pron. (accusative, relative) (The direct object relative pronoun.) | |
C'est un homme que je connais très bien. - He's a man whom I know very well. | |
Je viens de lire la lettre que vous m'avez envoyée. - I've just read the letter that you sent me. | |
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) | |
avion |
1. n-m. aeroplane | |
Regarde comme cet avion vole vite ! - Look how fast this plane flies! | |
était |
1. v. third-person singular imperfect 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 | |
attaqué |
1. Participle. past participle of attaquer | |
attaquer |
1. v. to attack | |
La Russie a attaqué l'Ukraine avec des missiles. - Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles. | |
Ce livre attaque la position de Marx. - This book attacks Marx's position. | |
2. v. to diminish; to spoil; to erode | |
La rouille attaque le fer. - Rust erodes iron. | |
3. v. to begin; to undertake (an enterprise, an endeavor, a task) | |
Je vais attaquer mes devoirs. - I'm going to start doing my homework. | |
4. v. (sailing) to approach (a shore) | |
par |
1. prep. through | |
par la fenêtre - through the window | |
aller par le parc - go through the park | |
2. prep. by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction)) | |
voyager par train - travel by train | |
par surprise - by surprise | |
le bateau est attaqué par des pirates. - the boat is being attacked by pirates. | |
3. prep. over (used to express direction) | |
Viens par ici ! - Come over here! | |
4. prep. from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement) | |
voir par devant - see from the back | |
le liquide est arrivé par le robinet - the liquid arrived from the tap | |
5. prep. around, round (inside of) | |
par tout le cinéma - all around the cinema | |
6. prep. on (situated on, used in certain phrases) | |
par terre - on the ground | |
7. prep. on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs) | |
par un beau jour - on a nice day | |
par un soir - in one evening | |
8. prep. in | |
marcher par deux - walk in twos | |
9. prep. per, a, an | |
trois fois par semaine - three times a week | |
10. prep. out of (used to describe the reason for something) | |
par pure colère - out of pure anger | |
par tristesse - out of sadness | |
11. prep. for | |
12. n-m. (golf) par | |
trois |
1. num. three | |
chasseurs |
1. n. plural of chasseur | |
chasseur |
1. n-m. a hunter | |
Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien. | |
2. n-m. a fighter plane | |
3. n-m. a servant or attendant | |
4. n-m. a la façon chasseur, a style of cooking in which meat is cooked with a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine | |