manière |
1. n-f. manner, way | |
une autre manière de vivre - another way of living | |
2. adv. (Louisiana French) somewhat, kinda, sorta, a bit, a little | |
Alle est manière tchaque drette asteur. - She's kind of drunk right now. | |
dont |
1. pron. of/from whom/which, whose | |
Vous rappelez-vous ce dont je vous ai parlé ? - Do you remember that of which we spoke? | |
Il n’est rien dont je sois encore certain. - There is nothing of which I am still certain. | |
Quel est le pays dont provient cette marchandise suspecte ? - What is the country from which the suspicious merchandise comes? | |
J’ai décidé d’abandonner l’affaire dont je vous ai entretenu il y a quelques jours. - I decided to abandon the matter of which we have been speaking for a few days. | |
La maladie dont il est mort porte un nom imprononçable. - The disease of which he died has an unpronounceable name. | |
Les pays dont nous n’avons point de connaissance sont les destinations privilégiées des grands aventuriers. - The countries of which we have little knowledge are the privileged destinations of | |
Ces étoiles — dont le nom m’échappe — sont les plus brillantes de la voûte céleste. - These stars, whose names escape me, are the brightest in the skies. | |
Le Québec est une province du Canada dont les frontières correspondent au territoire de la nation québécoise. - Quebec is a province of Canada whose borders correspond to the Quebecois nation. | |
2. pron. (sometimes) by which | |
Le coup dont il fut frappé. - The blow by which he was struck. | |
3. pron. Denotes a part of a set, may be translated as "including" or such as in some situations. | |
Il a eu dix enfants, dont neuf filles. - He had ten children, nine of them girls. | |
on |
1. pron. (indefinite) one, people, you, someone (an unspecified individual) | |
On ne peut pas pêcher ici - You can’t fish here | |
2. pron. (personal, informal) we | |
On s’est amusés. - We had fun. | |
trace |
1. n-f. trace | |
2. n-f. track | |
3. n-f. (mathematics) trace | |
4. v. first-person singular present of tracer | |
5. v. third-person singular present of tracer | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of tracer | |
tracer |
1. v. to draw or plot (a diagram), to trace out | |
2. v. to rule (a line) | |
3. v. (informal) to buck up, hurry up | |
ces |
1. det. plural of ce: these, those | |
caractères |
1. n. plural of caractère | |
caractère |
1. n-m. character, demeanour, personality | |
2. n-m. character (written symbol) | |