cet |
1. det. this | |
acteur |
1. n-m. actor | |
sait |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of savoir | |
savoir |
1. v. to know (something) | |
Savais-tu qu'il parle si bien l'anglais? - Did you know that he speaks English so well? | |
Comment savait-il que j'étais là? - How did he know that I was there? | |
Il est difficile de savoir si elle ment. - It's difficult to know if she's lying. | |
Il tire cette approche en inventant une situation initiale, dans laquelle on interrogerait les individus sur la forme qu'ils voudraient d'une société sans qu'ils sachent quelle place ils y aura | |
Difficile à savoir (expression; compare Difficile à dire, voir, faire) | |
2. v. to know how (to do something) | |
Savez-vous nager? - Do you know how to swim? | |
3. v. to be able to, to be apt to (especially in the negative or interrogative conditional; used in the positive in Belgium) | |
Il ne saurait tarder que... - It cannot/will not be long before... | |
4. v. to find out | |
Nous devons savoir pourquoi il a fait ça. - We have to find out why he did this. | |
5. n-m. knowledge | |
écouter |
1. v. to listen | |
2. v. to listen to | |
J’écoute la radio. | |
il |
1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) | |
Il est parti. - He left. | |
2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) | |
Je cherche mon livre. Où est-il ? - I'm looking for my book. Where is it? | |
3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it | |
Il pleut. - It’s raining. | |
écoute |
1. n-f. the act of listening | |
2. n-f. (espionage) always in plural listening in, especially short for écoutes téléphoniques (phone hacking) | |
3. n-f. (nautical) sheet (line to control a sail) | |
4. v. first-person singular present of écouter | |
5. v. third-person singular present of écouter | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of écouter | |
écouter |
1. v. to listen | |
2. v. to listen to | |
J’écoute la radio. | |
bien |
1. adj. good, all right, great | |
2. adj. good looking, nice | |
3. adv. well | |
Ça va bien ? - It goes well? | |
Il joue vraiment bien au football. - He plays soccer really well. | |
4. adv. indeed; so | |
Bien, on peut partir maintenant ? - So, can we leave now? | |
5. adv. (followed by de, des, or du) a lot (of) | |
Macy Gray a traversé bien des épreuves. - Macy Gray got through a lot of ordeals. | |
6. adv. very; really | |
C'est bien aimable à vous. - it's very considerate of you. | |
C'est bien beau, mais... - It's all very well, but... | |
Je te trouve bien silencieux aujourd'hui. - You seem very quiet today. | |
Il est bien moche, ce type. Ce type est vraiment moche. - That guy is really ugly. | |
7. adv. (in comparisons) much (more, less, better, etc.) | |
Jérémie est bien plus fort que moi. - Jérémie is much stronger than me. | |
bien meilleur que ... - much better than ..., much better than ... | |
8. n-m. good as opposed to evil | |
9. n-m. a commodity, a good | |
10. n-m. a possession | |