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 | |
sol |
1. n-m. soil, earth | |
2. n-m. ground | |
3. n-m. floor | |
4. n-m. (music) sol (the fifth step (G) in the solfège scale of C, preceded by fa and followed by la) | |
5. n-m. a Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol), or a coin of this value | |
était |
1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of être | |
être |
1. v. to be | |
Vous devez être plus clairs. - You must be clearer. | |
2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs) | |
Après être allé au yoga, je suis rentré chez moi. - After having gone to yoga, I came back home. | |
3. v. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice) | |
Il peut être battu ce soir. - He can be beaten this evening. | |
4. n-m. being, creature | |
5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence | |
froid |
1. adj. cold (temperature) | |
2. n-m. (diseases) cold, chill | |
3. n-m. (of a relationship) distance, strain | |
sous |
1. prep. below, under | |
2. n. plural of sou | |
3. n. (slang) money | |
sou |
1. n-m. (historical, numismatics) sou (old French coin) | |
2. n-m. (by extension, chiefly in the colloquial) money; cash | |
Tu peux me prêter des sous ? - Can you lend me some cash? | |
3. n-m. (Quebec, Louisiana, colloquial) cent (one hundredth of a dollar) | |
Ça va être six piastres et vingt-cinq sous, s'il te plaît. - That'll be six dollars and twenty-five cents, please. | |
ses |
1. det. his, her, its, their, one's (when referring to a plural noun) | |
Alicia dîne chez ses parents. - Alicia is having dinner at her parents' house. | |
Thomas a perdu ses clés. - Thomas has lost his keys. | |
Tout le monde doit apporter ses documents. - Everyone needs to bring their documents. | |
pieds |
1. n. plural of pied | |
pied |
1. n-m. (anatomy) foot | |
2. n-m. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it) | |
3. n-m. an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres | |
4. n-m. (Quebec, etc.) (Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)) | |
5. n-m. (poetry) foot | |
nus |
1. adj. masculine plural of nu | |
nu |
1. adj. (person) naked, nude | |
2. adj. (body, tree) bare | |
3. n-m. nu (Greek letter) | |