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. | |
traînait |
1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of traîner | |
traîner |
1. v. to pull, drag | |
2. v. to lag behind, dawdle | |
3. v. to lie about, sit around | |
4. v. to drag on, linger | |
5. v. to trail, drag (behind) | |
6. v. to hang out | |
7. v. to drag oneself, crawl along | |
un |
1. art. an, a | |
2. num. number box, fr | |
3. num. one | |
4. pron. one, someone | |
5. n-m. one (the number or figure) | |
grand |
1. adj. big, great, grand | |
2. adj. tall | |
Il est grand comment ? - How tall is he ? | |
3. adj. grown up, big | |
Quand je serai grande, je veux être astronaute. - When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut. | |
Il l'a fait tout seul comme un grand garçon. - He did it all on his own like a big boy. | |
4. adj. (usually capitalized) great, an honorific title | |
Alexandre le Grand - Alexander the Great | |
5. adj. great; big fat; an intensifier | |
un grand tricheur - a big fat cheater | |
6. adj. extensive, large | |
7. n-m. grown-up | |
attirail |
1. n-m. paraphernalia, equipment | |
après |
1. prep. after, later than in time. | |
On mange après avoir bu. - We eat after we drink. | |
après la fête - after the party | |
2. prep. after, coming for, trying to get (someone). | |
3. adv. afterwards | |
On va au cinéma après. - We'll go to the cinema afterwards. | |
4. adv. (Louisiana French) (Indicates the continuous aspect) | |
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 | |