chenal |
1. n-m. canal, channel (all nautical senses) | |
2. n-m. eavesdrop, eavestrough, gutter | |
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) | |
Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works | |
Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife. | |
le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France. | |
Le train va de Paris à 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 boîte 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 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free. | |
Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
un groupe de cinq à 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 | |
J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
Elle m’a 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 d’autres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother. | |
Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat. | |
Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems. | |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
séparation |
1. n-f. separation | |
passage |
1. n-m. the act of going through a place or event | |
2. n-m. the time when such an act occurs | |
3. n-m. Circulation, traffic, movement | |
4. n-m. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another,or crosses a meridian | |
5. n-m. a short stay | |
6. n-m. a trip or travel, especially by boat | |
7. n-m. the act of going from a state to another | |
8. n-m. graduation from a school year | |
9. n-m. the act of making something undergo a process | |
10. n-m. the act of handing something to someone | |
11. n-m. an access way | |
12. n-m. a laid out way allowing to go across something | |
13. n-m. an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars | |
14. n-m. a paragraph or section of text or music | |
15. v. first-person singular present of passager | |
16. v. third-person singular present of passager | |
17. v. second-person singular imperative of passager | |
passager |
1. n-m. passenger | |
2. adj. whose presence in a location is only temporary; passing | |
3. adj. of a short duration; temporary; transitory, fleeting, flighty | |
4. adj. (informal, of a street or place) busy | |
entre |
1. prep. between | |
2. prep. among | |
3. v. first-person singular present of entrer | |
4. v. third-person singular present of entrer | |
5. v. second-person singular imperative of entrer | |
entrer |
1. v. to enter | |
Entrer dans la salle. - Enter the room. | |
la |
1. art. the (definite article) | |
2. pron. her, it (direct object) | |
Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her. | |
Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner. | |
3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' | |
glace |
1. n-f. ice | |
2. n-f. ice cream | |
3. n-f. glass | |
4. n-f. mirror | |
5. v. singular present of glacer | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of glacer | |
glacer |
1. v. to freeze; to turn to ice | |
2. v. (figuratively, transitive) to freeze | |
3. v. to ice (cover with icing) | |
4. v. to turn to ice (become ice) | |
dérivante |
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et |
1. conj. and | |
une |
1. num. feminine singular of un | |
2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
banquise |
1. n-f. (geography) sea ice, pack ice, ice floe; ice field | |
côtière |
1. adj. feminine singular of côtier | |
côtier |
1. adj. coastal | |