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jeta |
1. v. third-person singular past historic of jeter | |
jeter |
1. v. to throw | |
2. v. to throw away, to discard | |
3. v. (card games) to throw away, discard | |
4. v. (indtr, .reflexive) to throw oneself (into, out of, etc.) | |
coi, L'Amazone se jette dans l'Océan Atlantique. | |
5. v. The Amazon throws herself into the Atlantic Ocean. | |
6. v. (indtr, sur, .reflexive) to rush oneself onto something or someone | |
dans |
1. prep. (literal, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state) | |
vieillir dans la misère - to grow old in poverty | |
être dans l'infanterie - to be in the infantry | |
avoir quelque chose dans la bouche - to have something in the mouth | |
dans les circonstances d'une pandémie - under the circumstances of a pandemic | |
Il habite dans le quartier le plus riche de Paris. - He lives in the richest district of Paris. | |
Il nage comme un poisson dans l'eau. - He swims like a fish in the water. | |
mettre l'argent dans la poche - to put money into one's pocket | |
Bienvenue dans le meilleur bar de tout Paris. - Welcome to the best bar in all of Paris. | |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes) | |
Aujourd'hui, je vais dans le Maine, et demain, je vais dans l’État de New York. - Today, I'm going to Maine, and tomorrow, I'm going to New York. | |
3. prep. in, within (a longer period of time) | |
Je serai prêt dans une heure. - I'll be ready in one hour. | |
Il arrivera dans trois jours. - He will arrive in three days. | |
4. prep. (with respect to time) during | |
dans un temps donné - during a given time | |
dans ma jeunesse - in my youth | |
5. prep. out of, from | |
boire dans une tasse - to drink from a cup | |
Il prend le beurre dans le réfrigérateur. - He takes the butter out of the fridge. | |
6. prep. (metonymy) in; in the works of | |
le marxisme dans Sartre - Marxism in the works of Sartre | |
7. prep. (colloquial) (Used in dans les) | |
dans les trentes kilos - about thirty kilos | |
dans les dix euros - about ten euros | |
8. n. plural of dan | |
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' | |
poêle |
1. n-m. stove | |
2. n-f. frying pan, pan | |
3. n-f. (colloquial) metal detector | |
4. v. first-person singular present of poêler | |
5. v. third-person singular present of poêler | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of poêler | |
7. n-m. (religion) pall | |
poêler |
1. v. (cooking) to fry in a frying pan | |
pleine |
1. adj. feminine singular of plein | |
plein |
1. adj. full, full up | |
La voiture est pleine. - The car is full. | |
C'est plein de légendes. - It's full of stories | |
2. adj. plenty | |
Il y a plein de choses à faire. - There are plenty of things to do. | |
3. adj. solid | |
4. adj. (astronomy, of a moon) full | |
5. adj. (preceded by en) mid-; middle | |
en plein match - (right) in the middle of a match | |
en plein concert - mid-concert | |
en plein essor - on the rise | |
en pleine attaque - mid-attack | |
6. adj. (biology, of an animal) pregnant | |
7. adv. (of the four cardinal points) due | |
Aller plein sud - To go due north | |
8. adv. (colloquial) a lot, lots of, many | |
J'en ai plein du monde ici - I have lots of people here | |
9. n-m. full tank (of gas) | |
10. n-m. downstroke (of a letter) | |
11. prep. (somewhat colloquial) in; all over; filling | |
Avoir du vin plein sa cave. | |
J'ai de l’argent plein mes poches. - I have money filling up my pockets. | |
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 | |
huile |
1. n-f. oil (liquid fat) | |
2. n-f. big gun, big cheese | |
3. v. first-person singular present of huiler | |
4. v. third-person singular present of huiler | |
5. v. second-person singular imperative of huiler | |
huiler |
1. v. to oil, oil up (cover or coat with oil) | |
bouillante |
1. adj. feminine singular of bouillant | |
bouillant |
1. adj. boiling (having reached boiling point) | |
2. adj. (colloquial) very hot | |
3. Participle. present participle of bouillir | |
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 | |
pommes |
1. n. plural of pomme | |
pommer |
1. v. (of vegetables, especially cabbage and lettuce) to develop a fruit | |
pomme |
1. n-f. apple (fruit) | |
manger une pomme - eat an apple | |
la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre - the apple never falls far from the tree | |
2. n-f. any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size | |
3. n-f. the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead | |
la pomme d’arrosoir - the nozzle of a watering can | |
4. n-f. (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple | |
5. n-f. (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce | |
pomme épineuse - jimsonweed | |
6. n-f. (colloquial) the head or face | |
7. n-f. (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot | |
C’est la reine des pommes ! - She's the queen of nutters! | |
8. n-f. (by ellipsis) potato (ng, from pomme de terre) | |
9. n-f. (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (ng, from the association with the Judgment of Paris) | |
Elle mérite la pomme. - She's a real beaut. | |
10. n-f. (Canada, pejorative, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society | |
11. v. first-person singular present of pommer | |
12. v. second-person singular present imperative of pommer | |
13. v. third-person singular present of pommer | |
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 | |
Terre |
1. Proper noun. the Earth (planet) | |
2. n-f. earth; soil | |
3. n-f. land, property (delimited area) | |
4. v. first-person singular present of terrer | |
5. v. third-person singular present of terrer | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of terrer | |
pommes de terre |
1. n. plural of pomme de terre | |
coupées |
1. Participle. feminine plural of coupé | |
couper |
1. v. to cut, cut up, to chop, to sever | |
2. v. to cut, to clip, to trim | |
J'ai besoin de me faire couper les cheveux. - I need to get my hair cut. | |
3. v. to cut off, to keep out | |
4. v. to dilute (with water) | |
5. v. to crack | |
en |
1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes) | |
J'habite en Angleterre. - I live in England. | |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes) | |
Il est allé en France. - He went to France. | |
3. prep. by (used to indicate means) | |
aller en bus - go by bus | |
partir en voiture - leave by car | |
4. prep. as | |
Il me traite en ami. - He treats me as a friend. | |
habillé en père Noël - dressed as Father Christmas | |
5. prep. at (used to describe an ability) | |
fort en histoire - good at history | |
6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition) | |
une chaise en hêtre - a chair made of beech/a beech chair | |
une fourchette en métal - a fork made of metal/a metal fork | |
7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years)) | |
en 1993 - in 1993 | |
en janvier - in January | |
en septembre 2001 - in September 2001 | |
8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while | |
9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something | |
C'est en trichant qu'il est devenu champion. - It was by cheating that he became champion. | |
10. prep. in (used to describe color) | |
une photo en noir et blanc - a photo in black and white | |
11. prep. in (used to describe feelings) | |
en détresse - in distress | |
12. prep. in (as part of something) | |
en équipe - on a team | |
13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.)) | |
Essaies-en ! - Try some (of it / them)! | |
Tu as combien de livres ? J'en ai trois. - How many books do you have? I have three (of them). | |
Y a-t-il beaucoup de pièces ? Oui. Il y en a beaucoup. - Are there many rooms? Yes, there are many (of them). | |
Martin a trois sandwichs, mais j'en ai seulement deux. - Martin has three sandwiches, but I have only two (of them). | |
Il y en a combien ? - How many of them are there? | |
Je bois de l'alcool parce que j'en ai besoin - I drink alcohol because I need (of) it. | |
14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici. | |
Est-ce qu'elle vient de Barcelone ? Oui, elle en vient. - Does she come from Barcelona? Yes, she comes (from there). | |
tranches |
1. v. second-person singular present of trancher | |
2. n. plural of tranche | |
trancher |
1. v. to slice, to cut into slices | |
2. v. to complete, conclude | |
Il a tranché ses jours. - He has concluded his days on earth. | |
3. v. to decide, to settle, to address | |
4. v. to rule, make a ruling, come to a decision | |
5. v. to behave or comport oneself (as if one were) | |
Le comte trancha du grand seigneur. - The count comported himself as if he were God Almighty. | |
6. v. to contrast (with), stand out (against) | |
7. v. to stand out (in) | |
tranche |
1. n-f. slice | |
2. n-f. milling on a coin | |
3. n-f. period | |
4. v. first-person singular present of trancher | |
5. v. third-person singular present of trancher | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of trancher | |
minces |
1. adj. plural of mince | |
mincer |
1. v. chop into fine pieces | |
mince |
1. adj. thin, slim, slender | |
2. interj. drat!, darn! | |
3. interj. wow!, blimey! | |
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