| peut |
| 1. v. third-person singular present indicative of pouvoir | |
| pouvoir |
| 1. v. can, to be able to | |
| Je peux venir ce soir. - I can come this evening. | |
| 2. v. may | |
| désastre qui peut nous frapper - disaster which may strike us | |
| 3. v. (impersonal, reflexive) to be possible; may, could be | |
| Il se peut que je sois malade. - (literally) It could be that I'm ill / (more naturally) I may be ill. / I could be ill. | |
| 4. n-m. (or un) power | |
| prendre le pouvoir - to take power, to seize power | |
| 5. n-m. authority | |
| 6. n-m. (legal) power of attorney | |
| être |
| 1. v. to be | |
| Vous devez être plus clairs. - You must be clearer. | |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) Used to form the perfect and pluperfect tense of (including all reflexive verbs) | |
| Après être allé au yoga, je suis rentré chez moi. - After having gone to yoga, I came back home. | |
| 3. v. (semi-auxiliary) to be (Used to form the passive voice) | |
| Il peut être battu ce soir. - He can be beaten this evening. | |
| 4. n-m. being, creature | |
| 5. n-m. being, the state or fact of existence | |
| peut être |
| 1. adv. misspelling of peut-être | |
| ne |
| 1. part. (literary) not (used alone to negate a verb; now chiefly with only a few particular verbs: see usage notes) | |
| 2. part. not, no (used before a verb, with a coordinating negative element usually following; see Usage Notes, below) | |
| 3. part. (Used in a subordinate clause before a subjunctive verb (especially when the main verb expresses doubt or fear), to provide extra overtones of doubt or uncertainty (but not negating its verb); the so- | |
| 4. part. In comparative clauses usually translated with the positive sense of the subsequent negative | |
| Apprendre le français est plus facile qu'on ne pense. - Learning French is easier than you (might) think. | |
| Me |
| 1. n. Abbreviation of Maître/Maitre(, a title given to lawyers and notaries public.) | |
| 2. pron. (direct object) me | |
| Est-ce que tu me vois ? - Do you see me? | |
| 3. pron. (indirect object) to me | |
| Émilien me donne un peu d'argent. - Émilien gave some money to me. | |
| a |
| 1. n. a, the name of the Latin-script letter A | |
| 2. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) alt form-lite, elle, , she | |
| C'te fille-là, a'a l'air cute. - This girl, she looks cute. | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present indicative of avoir | |
| Elle a un chat. - She has a cat. | |
| 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. | |
| t |
| 1. contraction. text messaging, internet slang Informal spelling of t'es | |
| t ou? - wya? | |
| t pas chez toi? - ur not home? | |
| t vrmt nul! - u rly suck! | |
| elle |
| 1. pron. she | |
| Je crois qu'elle est partie. - I think she left. | |
| 2. pron. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun) | |
| Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans. - That's my car. It is five years old. | |
| 3. pron. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers | |
| C’est à elle. - It's hers. | |
| sera |
| 1. v. third-person singular future indicative of être | |
| serait |
| 1. v. third-person singular conditional of être | |
| soit |
| 1. conj. or, meaning, that is to say | |
| 2. conj. either ... or | |
| Il veut adopter un animal de compagnie, soit un chat, soit un chien. - He wants to adopt a pet, either a cat, or a dog. | |
| Je lui ai dit que j'aimerais reprendre un de mes vieux passe-temps, soit jouer du piano, soit apprendre une langue. - I told him I want to take up one of my old hobbies agains, be that playing | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of être | |
| 4. v. (math) let be | |
| Soit f une fonction linéaire. - Let f be a linear function. | |
| 5. interj. OK; granted; so be it | |
| point |
| 1. n-m. point (small mark) | |
| 2. n-m. (sports) point | |
| 3. n-m. full stop, period (punctuation mark) | |
| 4. n-m. (knitting) stitch pattern | |
| 5. n-m. dot (Morse code symbol) | |
| 6. adv. (literary, dialectal, usually with "ne") not | |
| Ne craignez point - Fear not | |
| 7. Participle. past participle of poindre | |
| 8. v. third-person singular present indicative of poindre | |
| poindre |
| 1. v. to prick, sting | |
| 2. v. to sting, afflict (of pain, love etc.) | |
| 3. v. to come up (of a plant), peep through | |
| 4. v. to break, dawn (of day); to break (of dawn) | |
| 5. v. to appear, spring up | |
| reconnu |
| 1. Participle. past participle of reconnaître | |
| reconnaître |
| 1. v. to recognize | |
| 2. v. to recognise (something or someone that one has encountered before) | |
| 3. v. to admit | |
| derrière |
| 1. prep. behind | |
| Va derrière moi. - Go behind me. | |
| 2. prep. at the bottom of, behind (covertly responsible for) | |
| Je me demande qui est derrière tout ça. - I wonder who is at the bottom of all this. | |
| 3. adv. behind | |
| Il était loin derrière. - He was far behind. | |
| 4. n-m. rear of an object | |
| 5. n-m. bottom, bum, backside | |
| cet |
| 1. det. this | |
| ignoble |
| 1. adj. disgusting, repulsive, horrible | |
| masque |
| 1. n-m. mask (a cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection) | |
| 2. n-m. short for, masque de grossesse | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present of masquer | |
| 4. v. third-person singular present of masquer | |
| 5. v. second-person singular imperative of masquer | |
| masquer |
| 1. v. to mask; to hide | |
