| expliquer |
| 1. v. to explain | |
| sa |
| 1. det. (possessive) his, her, its, their, one's | |
| Emma est allée chez sa sœur. - Emma went to her sister's house. | |
| Pierre a perdu sa carte d'identité. - Pierre has lost his identity card. | |
| Sa voiture est blanche. - Their car is white. | |
| pensée |
| 1. Participle. feminine singular of pensé | |
| 2. n-f. a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246) | |
| 3. n-f. reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century) | |
| 4. n-f. (in the expression “être en pensée”) worry, concern (late 12th century) | |
| 5. n-f. the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200) | |
| 6. n-f. (obsolete) amorous attachment (c. 1200) | |
| 7. n-f. manner of thinking (c. 1215) | |
| 8. n-f. an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332) | |
| 9. n-f. the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644) | |
| 10. n-f. moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century) | |
| 11. n-f. an operation of the mind (since 1636) | |
| 12. n-f. idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621) | |
| 13. n-f. thinking, worldview of an author | |
| Travestir la pensée d'un auteur. | |
| 14. n-f. a pansy (plant) (c. 1460) | |
| 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 | |
| écrit |
| 1. Participle. past participle of écrire | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of écrire | |
| 3. adj. written | |
| 4. n-m. writing | |
| écrire |
| 1. v. to write | |
| écrire des lettres à ses amis - to write letters to his/her friends | |
| par écrit |
| 1. prep. in writing | |
| mettre quelque chose par écrit - to put something down on paper, to commit something to writing | |
