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. | |
y |
1. pron. there (at a place) | |
Il est dans la maison. Il y est. - He is in the house. He is there. | |
2. pron. there, thither (to there) | |
Nous allons au Mexique. Nous y allons. - We are going to Mexico. We are going there. | |
3. pron. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à. | |
Je pense à mon pays. J'y pense. - I think about my country. I think about it. | |
4. pron. With verbs: see for verbs which use this structure. | |
5. pron. With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology. | |
personnes y nommées - Persons named there(in) | |
procédures y afférentes - Related procedures | |
documents y relatifs - Related documents | |
eaux y affluentes - Tributary waters | |
6. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) he: Alternative form of il | |
7. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) they: Alternative form of ils | |
8. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) they: Alternative form of elles | |
a |
1. n. a, the name of the Latin-script letter A | |
2. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) alt form-lite, elle, , she | |
C'te fille-là, a'a l'air cute. - This girl, she looks cute. | |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of avoir | |
Elle a un chat. - She has a cat. | |
avoir |
1. n-m. asset, possession | |
2. v. to have (to own; to possess) | |
J'aimerais avoir 20 dollars. - I would like to have 20 dollars. | |
3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) | |
J'ai parlé. - I have spoken, I spoke. | |
Qu'est-ce que vous m'avez fait ? - What have you done to me? | |
4. v. to have (a condition) | |
J'ai faim. - I have hunger. | |
J'ai soif. - I have thirst. | |
J'ai froid. - I have cold. | |
J'ai chaud. - I have hot. | |
J'ai la chiasse. - I have the shits. | |
J'ai le rhume. - I have a cold. | |
J'ai le SIDA. - I have AIDS. | |
J'ai de la fièvre. - I've got a fever. | |
5. v. to have (a measure or age) | |
Elle a 19 ans. - She has 19 years. | |
6. v. to have (to trick) | |
Tu t'es fait avoir. - You've been had. | |
7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) | |
avoir des relations sexuelles - to have sexual relations | |
8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive | |
J'ai à vous parler. - I have to talk to you. | |
il y a |
1. v. singular present indicative of y avoir: there is, there are | |
Il y a un problème. - There is a problem. | |
Il y a deux personnes ici. - There are two people here. | |
2. prep. ago | |
Je l'ai vu il y a longtemps. - I saw it a long time ago. | |
Elle est allée en France il y a deux ans. - She went to France two years ago. | |
C'est il y a dix ans que je suis allé aux États-Unis. - It was ten years ago that I went to the United States. | |
y a |
1. v. (colloquial)contraction of il y a | |
Heureusement, y a l'amour. - Fortunately, there's love. Lyric by Michelle Daniel (1968) | |
y avoir |
1. v. (impersonal, transitive) there be | |
Il y a deux raisons. - There are two reasons. | |
une |
1. num. feminine singular of un | |
2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
Pomme |
1. Proper noun. (rare) given name, female | |
2. Proper noun. ====Notes==== | |
3. Proper noun. In France in , Pomme was the 2745th most popular given name, with 99 people. | |
4. n-f. apple (fruit) | |
manger une pomme - eat an apple | |
la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre - the apple never falls far from the tree | |
5. n-f. any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size | |
6. n-f. the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead | |
la pomme d’arrosoir - the nozzle of a watering can | |
7. n-f. (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple | |
8. n-f. (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce | |
pomme épineuse - jimsonweed | |
9. n-f. (colloquial) the head or face | |
10. n-f. (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot | |
C’est la reine des pommes ! - She's the queen of nutters! | |
11. n-f. (by ellipsis) potato (ng, from pomme de terre) | |
12. n-f. (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (ng, from the association with the Judgment of Paris) | |
Elle mérite la pomme. - She's a real beaut. | |
13. n-f. (Canada, pejorative, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society | |
14. v. first-person singular present of pommer | |
15. v. second-person singular present imperative of pommer | |
16. v. third-person singular present of pommer | |
pommer |
1. v. (of vegetables, especially cabbage and lettuce) to develop a fruit | |
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 | |
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' | |
Table |
1. Proper noun. Mensa (constellation) | |
2. n-f. table (item of furniture) | |
Pourquoi as-tu laissé ces livres sur la table ? - Why did you leave these books on the table? | |
3. n-f. flat surface atop various objects | |
4. n-f. flat part of a cut or carved object | |
5. n-f. (music) table of a stringed instrument | |
6. n-f. matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns | |
7. n-f. systematic list of content | |
8. v. first-person singular present of tabler | |
9. v. third-person singular present of tabler | |
10. v. second-person singular imperative of tabler | |
tabler |
1. v. (indtr, sur) to base one's scheming on something | |