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pratiquer
     1. v. to do; to practise
savoir
     1. v. to know (something)
           Savais-tu qu'il parle si bien l'anglais? - Did you know that he speaks English so well?
           Comment savait-il que j'étais là? - How did he know that I was there?
           Il est difficile de savoir si elle ment. - It's difficult to know if she's lying.
           Il tire cette approche en inventant une situation initiale, dans laquelle on interrogerait les individus sur la forme qu'ils voudraient d'une société sans qu'ils sachent quelle place ils y aura
           Difficile à savoir (expression; compare Difficile à dire, voir, faire)
     2. v. to know how (to do something)
           Savez-vous nager? - Do you know how to swim?
     3. v. to be able to, to be apt to (especially in the negative or interrogative conditional; used in the positive in Belgium)
           Il ne saurait tarder que... - It cannot/will not be long before...
     4. v. to find out
           Nous devons savoir pourquoi il a fait ça. - We have to find out why he did this.
     5. n-m. knowledge
nager
     1. v. to swim
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)
style
     1. n-m. style (manner of doing something)
     2. n-m. (botany) style (of a flower)
     3. n-m. fashion, trend, style
     4. n-m. (colloquial) style (personal comportment)
     5. n-m. flair
     6. n-m. (art) style; method characteristic of an artist; artistic manner or characteristic by which an artistic movement may be defined
     7. n-m. gnomon, style (needle of a sundial)
     8. n-m. (dated, historical) stylus, style (implement for writing on tablets)
     9. n-m. complement of jargon particular to a field; style (manner of writing specific to a field or discipline)
     10. n-m. sort, type; category of things
     styler
          1. v. to style; to dress
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
nage
     1. n-f. swimming
     2. v. first-person singular present of nager
     3. v. third-person singular present of nager
     4. v. second-person singular imperative of nager
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