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. | |
image |
1. n-f. picture, image | |
2. n-f. (TV, film) frame | |
3. n-f. A mental representation. | |
4. v. first-person singular present of imager | |
5. v. third-person singular present of imager | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of imager | |
imager |
1. v. to embellish with images | |
comportement |
1. n-m. behavior, demeanor | |
sale |
1. adj. dirty | |
2. adj. bad, unpleasant | |
Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu'il m'a aperçue en ville le mercredi. - The teacher can give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday. | |
3. adj. vile, despicable | |
Un sale type - A vile man. | |
4. v. first-person singular present of saler | |
5. v. third-person singular present of saler | |
6. v. second-person singular imperative of saler | |
saler |
1. v. to salt | |
et |
1. conj. and | |
obscène |
1. adj. obscene | |