| 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 | |
| point |
| 1. n-m. point (small mark) | |
| 2. n-m. (sports) point | |
| 3. n-m. full stop, period (punctuation mark) | |
| 4. n-m. (knitting) stitch pattern | |
| 5. n-m. dot (Morse code symbol) | |
| 6. adv. (literary, dialectal, usually with "ne") not | |
| Ne craignez point - Fear not | |
| 7. Participle. past participle of poindre | |
| 8. v. third-person singular present indicative of poindre | |
| poindre |
| 1. v. to prick, sting | |
| 2. v. to sting, afflict (of pain, love etc.) | |
| 3. v. to come up (of a plant), peep through | |
| 4. v. to break, dawn (of day); to break (of dawn) | |
| 5. v. to appear, spring up | |
| qui |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom | |
| Tu as vu qui ? - Who have you seen? | |
| Je ne sais pas qui vous êtes. - I don't know who you are. | |
| 2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that | |
| La personne qui parle connait bien son sujet. - The person who speaks knows his/her subject well. | |
| Cette voiture bleue qui passe me plait beaucoup. - This blue car which is passing I like a lot. | |
| J’aime les chiens qui sont calmes. - I like dogs that are quiet. | |
| Un homme à qui j’ai parlé. - A man to whom I spoke/have spoken. | |
| Si lugubre que fût l’appartement, c’était un paradis pour qui revenait du lycée. - Gloomy as the apartment was, it was still a paradise for those who came back from school. | |
| Rira bien qui rira le dernier. - Who laughs last laughs well. | |
| 3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if | |
| Qui elle en a, ça va faire. - If she has any, that will do. | |
| engendre |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of engendrer | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present of engendrer | |
| 3. v. second-person singular imperative of engendrer | |
| engendrer |
| 1. v. to generate, spawn, beget | |
| une |
| 1. num. feminine singular of un | |
| 2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
| 3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
| cycloïde |
| 1. n-f. (maths) cycloid | |
