les |
1. art. plural of le: the | |
2. art. plural of la: the | |
3. pron. plural of le: them | |
4. pron. plural of la: them | |
paroles |
1. n. plural of parole | |
2. n. (music) lyrics, words (of a song) | |
parole |
1. n-f. (the power of) speech, language (gloss, the faculty of using spoken language to communicate or express thought, the usage of this faculty, and the words articulated through its use) | |
la parole et l'écriture - speech and writing | |
(co, perdre la parole / perdre l'usage de la parole, to lose one's ability to speak) | |
avoir la parole facile - to speak easily, to be well-spoken | |
Les animaux manquent la parole. - Animals lack speech | |
2. n-f. word(s) utterance, expression (an orally articulated unit of discourse) | |
3. n-f. voice, spoken word | |
4. n-f. (in the plural) lyrics, words (of a song) | |
les paroles d'une chanson - the words of a song, lyrics of a song | |
5. n-f. promise, word | |
belles paroles - empty promise(s), lit=pretty words | |
tenir parole - to keep one's word | |
donner sa parole - to give one's word | |
être fidèle à sa parole - to be true to one's word | |
manquer à sa parole - to break one's word | |
revenir sur sa parole - to go back on one's word | |
croire sur parole - to take one's word | |
Il tient parole. - He keeps his word. | |
6. n-f. floor (the right to speak, as, for example, in a legislative assembly) | |
avoir la parole - to have the floor | |
prendre la parole - to take the floor | |
donner, céder, passer, ou laisser la parole à quelqu'un - to give someone the floor | |
couper la parole à quelqu'un, ou lui ôter la parole - to cut someone off | |
Le député a la parole. - The member has the floor. | |
de |
1. prep. of (expresses belonging) | |
Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France. | |
2. prep. of (used to express property or association) | |
Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works | |
Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife. | |
le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France. | |
Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. - The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux. | |
4. prep. of (indicates an amount) | |
5 kilos de pommes. - 5 kilograms of apples. | |
Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
Une portion de frites - A portion of fries | |
5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word | |
Un jus de pomme - Apple juice | |
Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
Une boîte de nuit - A nightclub | |
Un chien de garde - A guarddog | |
Une voiture de sport - A sportscar | |
Un stade de football - A football stadium | |
6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) | |
De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free. | |
Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
un groupe de cinq à huit personnes - a group of from five to eight people | |
7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive | |
J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
Elle m’a dit de venir. - She told me to come. | |
Nous vous exhortons de venir. - We urge you to come. | |
8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) | |
Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. - Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%. | |
9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. | |
Ce sont de bons enfants. - They are good children. | |
Il y a d’autres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother. | |
Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat. | |
Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems. | |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
une |
1. num. feminine singular of un | |
2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
chanson |
1. n-f. song | |