| je |
| 1. pron. I | |
| crois |
| 1. v. first-person singular present indicative of croire | |
| 2. v. second-person singular present indicative of croire | |
| 3. v. second-person singular imperative of croire | |
| croire |
| 1. v. to believe (someone) | |
| Il jure qu'il dit la vérité. Je ne le crois pas. - He swears that he's telling the truth. I do not believe him. | |
| Je crois que c'est vrai. - I believe that it is true. | |
| 2. v. to believe, to accept as true (+preo, à, something) | |
| Croire à quelque chose - To believe in something. | |
| Les français croient à l'amour. - The French believe in love. | |
| Croyez-vous à l'existence de Dieu? - Do you believe (in) the existence of God? | |
| Nous croyons à la venue du messie. - We believe in the coming of the Messiah. | |
| 3. v. to believe, to have faith + en (object) = in | |
| croire en quelqu'un, en quelque chose - I have faith in someone, ...in something. | |
| Oui, je crois en Dieu. - Yes, I believe in God. | |
| Je crois en toi. - I have faith in you. | |
| Il ne croit qu'en soi. - He only believes in himself. | |
| 4. v. to think of oneself as, to consider oneself as | |
| Il se croit parfait. - He thinks he's perfect. | |
| 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 | |
| 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' | |
| à la |
| 1. prep. a la, in the style or manner of (with a feminine singular adjective or a proper noun) | |
| à la française (in the French style) | |
| à la Hugo (in the style of Hugo) | |
| langue |
| 1. n-f. (anatomy) tongue | |
| la langue dans la bouche - the tongue in the mouth | |
| 2. n-f. (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words) | |
| la langue maternelle - the mother tongue, native language | |
| une langue étrangère - a foreign language | |
| Elle parle trois langues. - She speaks three languages. | |
| faire parler la langue française - to make speak the French language — Bertrand Barère | |
| Française |
| 1. n-f. Frenchwoman | |
| 2. adj. feminine singular of français | |
| français |
| 1. adj. French | |
| Il est l'un des entrepreneurs français les plus connus. - He's one of the most well-known French entrepreneurs. | |
| 2. adj. (Louisiana French) Franco-American or Francophone | |
| 3. n-m. French (language) | |
| Il parle très bien le français. - He speaks French very well. | |
| Elle a fait beaucoup d'efforts pour améliorer son français. - She made a lot of effort to improve her French. | |
| Le français est la sixième langue la plus parlée au monde après le chinois, l'anglais, le hindi, l'espagnol et l'arabe. - French is the sixth most spoken language in the world after Chinese, En | |
| 4. n-m. , translation=Strongadverb of degree remains alive in the French spoken in Belgium and in certain provinces of France; it's very common in written language: (...) | |
