parler |
1. v. to speak, talk | |
Il a commencé à parler à l’âge de quatre ans. - He began to speak at the age of four. | |
Ils ont parlé plusieurs heures avant d’aller se coucher. - They spoke several hours before going to sleep. | |
2. v. to be able to communicate in a language; to speak | |
Elle parle couramment français. - She speaks French fluently | |
3. v. (heraldry) to cant; (of a coat of arms) to make a pun of its bearer's name | |
Armes parlantes. | |
4. v. takes a reflexive pronoun | |
se parler à soi-même - to talk to oneself | |
5. n-m. parlance | |
6. n-m. vernacular, dialect | |
une |
1. num. feminine singular of un | |
2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
langue |
1. n-f. (anatomy) tongue | |
la langue dans la bouche - the tongue in the mouth | |
2. n-f. (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words) | |
la langue maternelle - the mother tongue, native language | |
une langue étrangère - a foreign language | |
Elle parle trois langues. - She speaks three languages. | |
faire parler la langue française - to make speak the French language — Bertrand Barère | |