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. | |
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 | |
là |
1. adv. referring to physical place | |
2. adv. there | |
Je t'attendrai là. - I'll wait for you there. | |
3. adv. here; present (used with être) | |
Je suis (toujours) là. - I'm (still) here. | |
4. adv. (referring to an abstract destination or goal); there | |
Je suis presque là. - I'm almost there. | |
geignant |
1. Participle. present participle of geindre | |
geindre |
1. v. to moan, groan | |
2. n-m. (obsolete) a worker who kneads dough in a bakery | |
sous |
1. prep. below, under | |
2. n. plural of sou | |
3. n. (slang) money | |
sou |
1. n-m. (historical, numismatics) sou (old French coin) | |
2. n-m. (by extension, chiefly in the colloquial) money; cash | |
Tu peux me prêter des sous ? - Can you lend me some cash? | |
3. n-m. (Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial) cent (one hundredth of a dollar) | |
Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît. - That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please. | |
ses |
1. det. his, her, its, their, one's (when referring to a plural noun) | |
Alicia dîne chez ses parents. - Alicia is having dinner at her parents' house. | |
Thomas a perdu ses clés. - Thomas has lost his keys. | |
Tout le monde doit apporter ses documents. - Everyone needs to bring their documents. | |
grosses |
1. adj. feminine plural of gros | |
couvertures |
1. n. plural of couverture | |
couverture |
1. n-f. blanket | |
2. n-f. coverage | |
3. n-f. cover, covering | |
pâle |
1. adj. pale (light in color) | |
2. adj. pale (lacking brightness) | |
3. adj. pale (dull) | |
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' | |
Barbe |
1. Proper noun. (given name, female), equivalent to English Barbara as a saint's name. Usual given name form: Barbara | |
2. n-f. beard | |
Il a une barbe bien fournie. (He has a luxurious beard.) | |
Je vais peut-être me laisser pousser la barbe. (Maybe I'll let my beard grow.) | |
Certaines personnes mettent plusieurs années avant d'obtenir une barbe dure, d'autres n'y parvenant jamais. (Some people take several years before obtaining a strong beard, others never succeed | |
3. n-f. longer hair growing on the chin or face of some animals | |
La barbe d'une chèvre, d'un bouc. - The beard of a goat, of a billygoat. | |
4. n-f. barbel (whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish) | |
Les barbes du brochet. - The barbels of the pike. | |
5. n-f. barb (feather) | |
Le duvet est constitué de petites plumes légères dont les barbes ne sont pas enchevêtrées. - The duvet is made of small, light feathers whose barbs are not tangled. | |
6. n-f. (botany) barb (hair or bristle) | |
7. n-f. (colloquial) a boring thing, a drag | |
Quelle barbe ! - What a bore! | |
8. adj. (horse) Barbary | |
un cheval barbe. | |
9. n-m. Barbary horse | |
Les barbes d'Abaco sont une toute petite population de chevaux barbes espagnols sauvages sur l'île d'Abaco. | |
10. v. first-person singular present of barber | |
11. v. third-person singular present of barber | |
12. v. second-person singular imperative of barber | |
barber |
1. v. (informal) to bore someone | |
la barbe |
1. n-f. (slang) Something that is very boring | |
C'est la barbe. - This is boring. | |
longue |
1. adj. feminine singular of long | |
long |
1. adj. long | |
2. n-m. length | |
Le nez de Pinocchio mesure le matin 5 cm de long. - Pinocchio's nose measures 5 cm long in the morning. | |
J'aime marcher le long du fleuve. - I like walking along the river. | |
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 | |
yeux |
1. n. plural of œil, eyes | |
Il a les yeux bleus. - He has blue eyes. | |
Il a de beaux yeux bleus. - He has beautiful blue eyes. | |
œil |
1. n-m. (anatomy) eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see | |
2. n-m. (plural œils) glyph, rendering of a single character | |
3. n-m. (plural œils) eye (of a needle) | |
caves |
1. n. plural of cave | |
caver |
1. v. to dig; to mine | |
et |
1. conj. and | |
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 | |
temps |
1. n-m. time (in general) | |
je n'ai pas le temps de faire ça - I haven't got (the) time to do that | |
il faut encore du temps - I need more time | |
Il est temps de commencer. - it's time to commence | |
2. n-m. weather | |
le temps n'est pas bon ici - the weather is no good here | |
quel temps fait-il ? - how's the weather? | |
3. n-m. (grammar) tense | |
un temps composé - a compound tense | |
un temps simple - a simple tense | |
changez le temps du verbe - change the tense of the verb | |
à |
1. Notes. In Canada, à and a are not homophones, à a, a ɑː. | |
2. prep. to (destination) | |
aller au bout - go to the end / go all the way | |
Je vais à Paris. - I am going to Paris. | |
3. prep. to (until) | |
Le spectacle sera de 18h à 21h. - The show will be from 6 pm to 9 pm. | |
4. prep. on the, to (some directions) | |
Tournez à gauche ! - Turn to the left! | |
Ne tournez pas encore à droite ! - Don't turn to the right yet! | |
Le vent vire au nord. - The wind turns north. | |
L'école est à gauche. - The school is on the left. | |
5. prep. at (said of a particular time) | |
à dix heures et quart - at quarter past ten | |
Je pars à cinq heures précises. - I am leaving at exactly five o'clock. | |
6. prep. at, in, on (said of a particular place) | |
à la maison - at home | |
à l'hôtel - at the hotel | |
au comptoir du bar - at the bar | |
au bois - in the woods | |
J'habite à un demi-kilomètre d'ici. - I live half a kilometer from here. | |
La maison qui a été détruite hier soir ne se trouvait qu'à trois kilomètres de chez nous. - The house that was destroyed last night was only three kilometers from our place.à trois kilomètres d | |
7. prep. Used in various interjections used as warnings or exhortations | |
au voleur ! - stop thief! | |
à l'assassin ! - murderer! | |
au meurtre ! - murder! murderer! | |
à moi ! - help! | |
à l'aide ! - help! | |
au secours ! - help! | |
au feu ! - fire! | |
aux armes ! - to arms! | |
à l'attaque ! - attack! forward! charge! up and at 'em! | |
à l'abordage ! - on board! | |
au boulot ! - get to work! let's get to work! | |
au travail ! - get to work! let's get to work! | |
8. prep. from (origin) | |
Nous prenons de l'eau au puits. - We get water from the well. | |
Je l'ai eu à la bibliothèque. - I got it from the library. | |
Voilà la femme à laquelle j'ai acheté mon chien - There's the woman I bought my dog from. | |
9. prep. of (belonging to) | |
C'est un ami à moi. - This is a friend of mine. | |
Cette voiture est à John. - This is John's car. | |
le chien à Marie - Mary's dog nonstandard: one normally would use de here | |
10. prep. till, until (used in farewells) | |
à plus tard - see you later | |
à bientôt - see you soon | |
Salut, donc. À demain. - Bye, then. 'Til tomorrow / see you tomorrow. | |
11. prep. (cuisine) cooked in or with | |
12. prep. Used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for | |
moulin à poivre - pepper mill | |
sac à dos - backpack | |
boite à musique - music box | |
13. prep. (before an infinitive) to (used to express something not completed) | |
l'équipe à battre - the team to beat | |
Il n'y a jamais grand-chose à faire par ici. - There's never much to do around here. | |
Là où tu ne vois pas grand-chose, je ne trouve qu'une grande abondance de choses qui restent à faire. - Where you see nothing great, I only see a great abundance of things that need doing. | |
Il reste deux tâches à finir. - There are two things left to finish. | |
Il y a de la bière à boire. - There's some beer to drink. | |
14. prep. Used to describe a part of something, often translated into English as a compound adjective | |
un animal à quatre pattes - a four-legged animal | |
une femme au visage pâle - a pale-faced woman | |
un homme à longue barbe - a long-bearded man — a man with a long beard | |
une chemise à manches courtes - a short-sleeved shirt | |
une maison aux murs de brique - a brick-walled house / a house with brick walls | |
15. prep. by | |
peu à peu - bit by bit | |
petit à petit - little by little | |
minute à minute - minute by minute | |
jour à jour - day by day | |
un à un - one by one | |
16. prep. or, to (used to express an approximate number) | |
six à sept personnes - six or seven people | |
de vingt à trente ans - from twenty to thirty years | |
tous les cinq à six ans - every five or six years | |
17. prep. Used to indicate the recipient of certain phrasal verb. | |
mettre le feu à - to set fire to | |
clouer le bec à - to shut (someone) up | |
donner la chasse à - to give chase to | |
18. prep. with | |
autre |
1. adj. other | |
Donnez-moi un autre exemple. - Give me another example. | |
2. adj. another | |
de temps à autre |
1. adv. now and then, from time to time | |
tournant |
1. Participle. present participle of tourner | |
2. adj. turning | |
3. adj. revolving (door) | |
4. adj. swivel (chair) | |
5. n-m. bend, turn, corner | |
6. n-m. turning point | |
tourner |
1. v. to turn (left, right etc.) | |
2. v. to stir (e.g. ingredients) | |
3. v. to tour, to go on tour | |
4. v. (film) to film, to shoot a film | |
5. v. (computing, ambitransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.) | |
Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur. - To run a program on one's computer. | |
6. v. to lathe | |
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. | |
tête |
1. n-f. head (part of the body) | |
J'ai mal à la tête - I have a headache | |
2. n-f. head (leader) | |
3. n-f. (soccer) header | |
4. n-f. (colloquial) a bright spark, a quick study | |
Ce type-là, c'est une tête - This guy is a head | |
en |
1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes) | |
J'habite en Angleterre. - I live in England. | |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes) | |
Il est allé en France. - He went to France. | |
3. prep. by (used to indicate means) | |
aller en bus - go by bus | |
partir en voiture - leave by car | |
4. prep. as | |
Il me traite en ami. - He treats me as a friend. | |
habillé en père Noël - dressed as Father Christmas | |
5. prep. at (used to describe an ability) | |
fort en histoire - good at history | |
6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition) | |
une chaise en hêtre - a chair made of beech/a beech chair | |
une fourchette en métal - a fork made of metal/a metal fork | |
7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years)) | |
en 1993 - in 1993 | |
en janvier - in January | |
en septembre 2001 - in September 2001 | |
8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while | |
9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something | |
C'est en trichant qu'il est devenu champion. - It was by cheating that he became champion. | |
10. prep. in (used to describe color) | |
une photo en noir et blanc - a photo in black and white | |
11. prep. in (used to describe feelings) | |
en détresse - in distress | |
12. prep. in (as part of something) | |
en équipe - on a team | |
13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.)) | |
Essaies-en ! - Try some (of it / them)! | |
Tu as combien de livres ? J'en ai trois. - How many books do you have? I have three (of them). | |
Y a-t-il beaucoup de pièces ? Oui. Il y en a beaucoup. - Are there many rooms? Yes, there are many (of them). | |
Martin a trois sandwichs, mais j'en ai seulement deux. - Martin has three sandwiches, but I have only two (of them). | |
Il y en a combien ? - How many of them are there? | |
Je bois de l'alcool parce que j'en ai besoin - I drink alcohol because I need (of) it. | |
14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici. | |
Est-ce qu'elle vient de Barcelone ? Oui, elle en vient. - Does she come from Barcelona? Yes, she comes (from there). | |
sueur |
1. n-f. sweat, perspiration | |
sur |
1. prep. on, upon | |
2. prep. on top of | |
3. prep. from on top of | |
4. prep. above | |
5. prep. out of | |
sept sur dix - seven out of ten | |
6. prep. in the case of | |
7. prep. about, concerning | |
8. prep. (informal, France) in (a place) | |
sur Paris - in Paris | |
9. adj. sour | |
Le |
1. Proper noun. surname, from=Vietnamese | |
2. art. the (definite article) | |
Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning. | |
3. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English. | |
L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind. | |
4. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc. | |
Il s’est cassé la jambe. - He has broken his leg. | |
5. art. (before units) a, an | |
Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure. - fifty kilometres an hour | |
6. pron. (direct object) him, it | |
Où est Malik ? Je ne le vois pas. - Where is Malik? I don't see him. | |
Mon sac ? Je vais le mettre dans la voiture. - My bag? I'm going to put it in the car. | |
7. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English | |
Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi. - ... and he is it too | |
sale |
1. adj. dirty | |
2. adj. bad, unpleasant | |
Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu'il m'a aperçue en ville le mercredi. - The teacher can give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday. | |
3. adj. vile, despicable | |
Un sale type - A vile man. | |
4. v. first-person singular present of saler | |
5. v. third-person singular present of saler | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of saler | |
saler |
1. v. to salt | |
oreiller |
1. n-m. pillow | |
où |
1. adv. where (interrogative) | |
Où est la gare? - Where is the station? | |
Où tu vas, là ? - Hey, where are you going? | |
Comment savez-vous où j'habite ? - How do you know where I live? | |
2. adv. where (relative pronoun) | |
3. adv. at that time; when | |
Je ne l'ai pas vu aussi heureux depuis le jour où il est devenu père. - I haven't seen him so happy since the day when he became a father. | |
4. adv. (poetic) whither, to where | |
Un ciel plus pur et des dieux meilleurs, je t'offre à Rome où je me rends. - A purer heaven and better gods I offer you in Rome, whither I go. | |
se |
1. pron. The third-person reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun. | |
2. pron. (to) himself | |
3. pron. (to) herself | |
4. pron. (to) oneself | |
5. pron. (to) itself | |
6. pron. (to) themselves | |
7. pron. (to) each other | |
8. pron. (Louisiana) (The second-person plural reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.) | |
Je suis partie à la chasse et faut vous autres se comportes bien. - I'm going hunting and y'all need to behave yourselves. | |
abattaient |
1. v. third-person plural imperfect indicative of abattre | |
abattre |
1. v. to butcher; to slaughter for meat | |
2. v. to shoot dead | |
3. v. to cut down (a tree) | |
4. v. to destroy or demolish (a wall) | |
5. v. to fall down, especially of tall things, such as trees | |
6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to descend upon with violence or furor | |
7. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, of lightning) to strike | |
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 | |
mouches |
1. n. plural of mouche | |
2. v. second-person singular present of moucher | |
moucher |
1. v. to blow (someone's) nose | |
2. v. to put someone in their place | |
3. v. to blow one's nose | |
4. v. to snuff out (a candle etc.) | |
mouche |
1. n-f. fly (insect) | |
2. n-f. bullseye (center of a target) | |
3. n-f. espionage a spy employed by the ancien régime to seek out subversive ideas | |
4. n-f. (Louisiana French) bee | |
5. n-f. soul patch, mouche (narrow beard descending from lower lip) | |
6. v. first-person singular present of moucher | |
7. v. third-person singular present of moucher | |
8. v. second-person singular imperative of moucher | |