| mets |
| 1. n-m. (cooking) dish | |
| 2. v. first-person singular present indicative of mettre | |
| 3. v. second-person singular present indicative of mettre | |
| 4. v. second-person singular imperative of mettre | |
| mettre |
| 1. v. to put; to place | |
| 2. v. to put on | |
| 3. v. to set (to lay a table) | |
| 4. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to start (+ à) (something / doing something), to get around to doing something | |
| tes |
| 1. det. your (when referring to a plural noun) | |
| J'aime bien tes voisins. - I like your neighbors. | |
| bottes |
| 1. n. plural of botte | |
| botter |
| 1. v. to kick | |
| 2. v. (slang) to please, to like | |
| Ça te botterait d'aller au ciné? - Would you like to go the cinema? | |
| botte |
| 1. n-f. boot (footwear) | |
| 2. n-f. something resembling a boot | |
| la botte italienne - the Italian boot | |
| une botte à bière - a boot-shaped beer glass | |
| 3. n-f. (figuratively) oppression | |
| Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi. - The Jews suffered greatly under the oppression of the Nazi regime. | |
| 4. n-f. (polytechnic jargon) the top of the class in polytechnic school | |
| 5. v. first-person singular present of botter | |
| 6. v. third-person singular present of botter | |
| 7. v. second-person singular imperative of botter | |
| 8. n-f. bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables) | |
| 9. n-f. bundle, sheaf (of grain) | |
| 10. n-f. bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay) | |
| 11. n-f. (by extension) fodder or feed for small livestock | |
| 12. n-f. a bundle of skeins | |
| 13. n-f. bunch (large amount of something) | |
| 14. n-f. (informal) sex, proposed to a woman by a man | |
| Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain ! - I offered to have sex with her. No luck! | |
| 15. n-f. bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg) | |
| 16. n-f. (fencing) thrust | |
| 17. n-f. (nautical) ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet) | |
| 18. n-f. large barrel, cask | |
| 19. n-f. (historical) (a former unit of measure:) about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds | |
| 20. n-f. (historical) (a former unit of measure, varying with time and place:) about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons | |
| 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). | |
| caoutchouc |
| 1. n-m. rubber (natural and synthetic) | |
| 2. n-m. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) plastic | |
| sinon |
| 1. conj. except, apart from | |
| Je ne sais pas grand-chose, sinon que je t'aime. - I don't know much, except that I love you. | |
| 2. conj. if not | |
| Même si je perdais la plupart de mes livres, il m'en resterait au moins une centaine, sinon plus. - Even if I lost most of my books, I would still have at least a hundred, if not more. | |
| 3. conj. otherwise, or else | |
| tu |
| 1. pron. you (singular); thou | |
| 2. Participle. past participle of taire | |
| 3. part. (Quebec, informal) (question marker) | |
| C'est-tu possible ? - Is it possible? | |
| taire |
| 1. v. to quieten, to shut up, to silence | |
| Faites taire vos enfants ! - Shut your children up! | |
| 2. v. to shut up (one's self), to be quiet, to fall silent, to stop talking | |
| Tais-toi! - Be quiet!/Shut up! | |
| 3. v. To keep (a matter) quiet, to keep secret, not to say | |
| Je l'ai entendu de quelqu'un dont je préfère taire le nom. - I heard it from someone whose name I'd rather keep to myself. | |
| auras |
| 1. v. second-person singular future of avoir | |
| 2. n. plural of aura | |
| avoir |
| 1. n-m. asset, possession | |
| 2. v. to have (to own; to possess) | |
| J'aimerais avoir 20 dollars. - I would like to have 20 dollars. | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) | |
| J'ai parlé. - I have spoken, I spoke. | |
| Qu'est-ce que vous m'avez fait ? - What have you done to me? | |
| 4. v. to have (a condition) | |
| J'ai faim. - I have hunger. | |
| J'ai soif. - I have thirst. | |
| J'ai froid. - I have cold. | |
| J'ai chaud. - I have hot. | |
| J'ai la chiasse. - I have the shits. | |
| J'ai le rhume. - I have a cold. | |
| J'ai le SIDA. - I have AIDS. | |
| J'ai de la fièvre. - I've got a fever. | |
| 5. v. to have (a measure or age) | |
| Elle a 19 ans. - She has 19 years. | |
| 6. v. to have (to trick) | |
| Tu t'es fait avoir. - You've been had. | |
| 7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) | |
| avoir des relations sexuelles - to have sexual relations | |
| 8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive | |
| J'ai à vous parler. - I have to talk to you. | |
| aura |
| 1. n-f. aura | |
| 2. v. third-person singular future of avoir | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| mouillés |
| 1. Participle. masculine plural of mouillé | |
| mouiller |
| 1. v. to make wet, get wet, dampen, moisten | |
| 2. v. to water (down) | |
| 3. v. to cast, drop (anchor) | |
| 4. v. to palatalize | |
| 5. v. to anchor, lie at anchor | |
| 6. v. to be so frightened as to piss oneself | |
| 7. v. to be wet | |
| 8. v. to rain | |
| 9. v. to stick one's neck out | |
| Tu ne te mouilles pas trop, à ce que je vois ! - you don't get too wet | |
