elle |
1. pron. she | |
Je crois qu'elle est partie. - I think she left. | |
2. pron. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun) | |
Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans. - That's my car. It is five years old. | |
3. pron. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers | |
C’est à elle. - It's hers. | |
sera |
1. v. third-person singular future indicative of être | |
serait |
1. v. third-person singular conditional of être | |
soit |
1. conj. or, meaning, that is to say | |
2. conj. either ... or | |
Il veut adopter un animal de compagnie, soit un chat, soit un chien. - He wants to adopt a pet, either a cat, or a dog. | |
Je lui ai dit que j'aimerais reprendre un de mes vieux passe-temps, soit jouer du piano, soit apprendre une langue. - I told him I want to take up one of my old hobbies agains, be that playing | |
3. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of être | |
4. v. (math) let be | |
Soit f une fonction linéaire. - Let f be a linear function. | |
5. interj. OK; granted; so be it | |
lui |
1. pron. him, he; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject | |
J'habitais avec lui. - I was living with him. | |
C'est lui qui a dit cela. - It was him who said that. | |
Lui, il n'en sait rien. - He doesn't know anything about it. | |
2. pron. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object | |
Je lui ai donné le livre. - I gave the book to him/her. | |
3. Participle. past participle of luire | |
serra |
1. v. third-person singular past historic of serrer | |
serrer |
1. v. to tighten (a screw, a knot) | |
Doucement ! Ça ne sert à rien de trop serrer cette vis. - Gently! It's no use to tighten this screw too much. | |
Ton nœud de cravate n'est pas assez serré. - Your tie's knot isn't tightened enough. | |
2. v. to shake (hands) | |
J'ai refusé de lui serrer la main. - I refused to shake his/her hand. | |
3. v. to squeeze | |
Il lui serra le bras si fort qu'elle en garda une trace pendant trois jours. - He squeezed her arm so hard that she had a mark on it for three days. | |
4. v. to squeeze | |
Ils se sont serrés pour lui faire une place. - They squeezed together to make room for him. | |
5. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shake (hands) | |
Les jeunes hommes d'affaires se sont serré la main. - The young businessmen shook each other's hands. | |
6. v. (slang) to seduce; to flirt with | |
7. v. (slang) to pinch (to arrest, apprehend someone) | |
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' | |
main |
1. n-f. hand | |
2. n-f. (soccer) handball | |
3. n-f. (poker) hand | |
serrer la main |
1. v. (indtr, à) to shake hands with | |