personne |
1. n-f. person | |
2. pron. (with ne) no one, nobody | |
Il n'y a personne ici. - There is nobody here. | |
Qui l'a lu? Personne. - Who has read it? No one. | |
Il n'a parlé avec personne. - He spoke to nobody. | |
Personne ne parle avec lui. - No one speaks with him. | |
3. pron. anyone | |
Il le sait mieux que personne. - He knows it better than anyone. | |
qui |
1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom | |
Tu as vu qui ? - Who have you seen? | |
Je ne sais pas qui vous êtes. - I don't know who you are. | |
2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that | |
La personne qui parle connait bien son sujet. - The person who speaks knows his/her subject well. | |
Cette voiture bleue qui passe me plait beaucoup. - This blue car which is passing I like a lot. | |
J’aime les chiens qui sont calmes. - I like dogs that are quiet. | |
Un homme à qui j’ai parlé. - A man to whom I spoke/have spoken. | |
Si lugubre que fût l’appartement, c’était un paradis pour qui revenait du lycée. - Gloomy as the apartment was, it was still a paradise for those who came back from school. | |
Rira bien qui rira le dernier. - Who laughs last laughs well. | |
3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if | |
Qui elle en a, ça va faire. - If she has any, that will do. | |
conçoit |
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of concevoir | |
concevoir |
1. v. to conceive (an idea) | |
2. v. to conceive (a baby) | |
3. v. to conceive (to understand, to comprehend) | |
4. v. to design | |
ou |
1. conj. or | |
2. conj. either...or | |
Ou il est fou ou il est bête. - Either he's mad or he's stupid. | |
élabore |
1. v. first-person singular present of élaborer | |
2. v. third-person singular present of élaborer | |
3. v. second-person singular imperative of élaborer | |
élaborer |
1. v. to draw up, write up, make up, whip up, put together | |
Un compositeur ou une compositrice est une personne musicienne qui élabore de la musique. - | |
2. v. to process farther, to produce, to develop, to metabolize | |
L'embryon élabore une hormone … - The embry metabolizes a hormone … | |
Le cœur possède la puissance première d’élaborer le sang. - The heart has the prime power of processing the blood. | |
3. v. to elaborate, to work out | |
quelque |
1. det. some (singular) | |
chose |
1. n-f. thing | |
quelque chose |
1. pron. something (an indefinite or indeterminate object) | |