| le |
| 1. art. the (definite article) | |
| Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning. | |
| 2. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English. | |
| L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind. | |
| 3. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc. | |
| Il s’est cassé la jambe. - He has broken his leg. | |
| 4. art. (before units) a, an | |
| Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure. - fifty kilometres an hour | |
| 5. 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. | |
| 6. 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 | |
| garde |
| 1. n. a watch, guard | |
| 2. n. a battalion responsible for guarding, defending a sovereign, a prince, more generally, of an elite corps. | |
| 3. n. (military) sentry service performed by soldiers. | |
| 4. n. (military) soldiers doing the sentry service | |
| 5. n. any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis. | |
| 6. n-f. a handle (of a weapon) | |
| 7. n-f. a protection (act of protecting) | |
| 8. v. first-person singular present of garder | |
| 9. v. third-person singular present of garder | |
| 10. v. second-person singular imperative of garder | |
| garder |
| 1. v. to keep; to retain; to store; to save | |
| garder les yeux ouverts - to keep eyes open | |
| Elle a le droit de garder secrètes la plupart de ses caractéristiques. - She has the right to keep most of her characteristics secret. | |
| 2. v. to guard | |
| Ils gardent le bâtiment. - They guard the building. | |
| 3. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be careful (de faire not to do) | |
| il se garde de dire n'importe quoi. - He is careful not to say anything. | |
| chasse |
| 1. n-f. hunt | |
| 2. n-f. hunting | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present of chasser | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present of chasser | |
| 5. v. second-person singular imperative of chasser | |
| chasser |
| 1. v. to hunt | |
| 2. v. to chase | |
| 3. v. to drive off | |
| 4. v. to chassé | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| saisi |
| 1. Participle. past participle of saisir | |
| saisir |
| 1. v. to take hold of; to grab | |
| 2. v. to seize, to take (an illegal product), to capture | |
| 3. v. to grasp mentally; understand | |
| 4. v. (computing) to capture (screen or data) | |
| 5. v. (computing) to type (something) into a computer; to input | |
| 6. v. (accounting) to record (something) in an account, ledger, etc. | |
| 7. v. (law) to vest a court with a case; to refer a matter to a court | |
| son |
| 1. n-m. sound | |
| Le son de ce piano est agréable. (The sound of this piano is nice.) | |
| 2. det. (possessive) his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel) | |
| Elle a perdu son chapeau. - She lost her hat. | |
| Il a perdu son chapeau. - He lost his hat. | |
| J'aime son amie. - I like his/her girlfriend. | |
| La décision a été prise pendant son absence. - The decision was taken in her/his absence. | |
| 3. n-m. bran | |
| Ceci est du pain de son. - This bread is done with bran. | |
| fusil |
| 1. n-m. rifle, gun | |
| 2. n-m. steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil) | |
