pièce |
1. n-f. room (in a house, etc) | |
2. n-f. piece | |
3. n-f. (money) coin | |
4. n-f. play (in a theatre) | |
5. n-f. (heraldry) ordinary | |
6. n-f. (legal) document, paper | |
7. n-f. patch | |
de |
1. prep. of (expresses belonging) | |
Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France. | |
2. prep. of (used to express property or association) | |
Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works | |
Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife. | |
le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France. | |
Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. - The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux. | |
4. prep. of (indicates an amount) | |
5 kilos de pommes. - 5 kilograms of apples. | |
Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
Une portion de frites - A portion of fries | |
5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word | |
Un jus de pomme - Apple juice | |
Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
Une boîte de nuit - A nightclub | |
Un chien de garde - A guarddog | |
Une voiture de sport - A sportscar | |
Un stade de football - A football stadium | |
6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) | |
De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free. | |
Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
un groupe de cinq à huit personnes - a group of from five to eight people | |
7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive | |
J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
Elle m’a dit de venir. - She told me to come. | |
Nous vous exhortons de venir. - We urge you to come. | |
8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) | |
Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. - Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%. | |
9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. | |
Ce sont de bons enfants. - They are good children. | |
Il y a d’autres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother. | |
Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat. | |
Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems. | |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
bois |
1. n-m. wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree) | |
2. n-m. wood (wood of a particular species of tree) | |
3. n-m. wood, woodland (forested or wooded area) | |
4. n-m. antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs) | |
5. n-m. (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind | |
6. v. singular present indicative of boire | |
7. v. second-person singular present imperative of boire | |
boire |
1. v. to drink | |
plaque |
1. n-f. sheet, plate (of metal) | |
2. n-f. slab (of marble) | |
3. n-f. (medicine) plaque (bacteria on teeth) | |
plaque muqueuse, dentaire | |
4. n-f. plaque, slab (ornamental) | |
5. n-f. (casino) chip | |
6. n-f. (electrics, photography) plate | |
7. n-f. (geology) plate (especially a tectonic plate) | |
8. n-f. slab, bar (of e.g. chocolate) | |
9. n-f. (slang) 10,000 francs | |
10. n-f. burner; ring (element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking) | |
11. v. first-person singular present of plaquer | |
12. v. third-person singular present of plaquer | |
13. v. second-person singular imperative of plaquer | |
plaquer |
1. v. to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material) | |
2. v. (rugby) to tackle | |
3. v. (martial arts) to grapple | |
4. v. (colloquial) to leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone | |
Elle a plaqué son copain. | |
She left her boyfriend. | |
métallique |
1. adj. metallic | |
Toile |
1. Proper noun. Web; World Wide Web | |
2. n-f. fabric, cloth; canvas | |
3. n-f. painting (artwork) | |
4. n-f. (spider's) web | |
5. n-f. alternative case form of Toile | |
toiler |
1. v. to cover with cloth | |
2. v. (nautical) to extent the sail of a watercraft | |
tendue |
1. Participle. feminine singular of tendu | |
tendre |
1. adj. tender (soft, delicate) | |
2. v. to tighten | |
3. v. to stretch out | |
4. v. (indtr, vers) to tend towards | |
tendre vers l'infini - to tend to infinity | |
5. v. (indtr, vers) to strive for | |
6. v. to become taut | |
sur |
1. prep. on, upon | |
2. prep. on top of | |
3. prep. from on top of | |
4. prep. above | |
5. prep. out of | |
sept sur dix - seven out of ten | |
6. prep. in the case of | |
7. prep. about, concerning | |
8. prep. (informal, France) in (a place) | |
sur Paris - in Paris | |
9. adj. sour | |
un |
1. art. an, a | |
2. num. number box, fr | |
3. num. one | |
4. pron. one, someone | |
5. n-m. one (the number or figure) | |
cadre |
1. n-m. frame (of a door or picture) | |
2. n-m. backbone (of an organization) | |
3. n-m. box, square (on a printed page) | |
4. n-m. (business) executive, middle manager | |
5. n-m. scope, framework | |
6. n-m. (military) cadre | |
7. n-m. context, parameters | |
8. n-m. (cycling) frame | |
cadre en fibre de carbone - carbon fiber frame | |
9. n-m. environment, setting | |
cadre de vie - living environment | |
10. v. first-person singular present of cadrer | |
11. v. third-person singular present of cadrer | |
12. v. second-person singular imperative of cadrer | |
cadrer |
1. v. to fit (go well together) | |
2. v. (photography) to frame (put into the field of vision) | |
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