| 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. | |
| pratique |
| 1. adj. practical, applied (concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it) | |
| 2. adj. concrete, practical | |
| 3. adj. belonging to the everyday or mundane | |
| 4. adj. experienced | |
| 5. adj. convenient; handy | |
| Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique. - This remote control is really convenient. | |
| 6. n-f. practice | |
| 7. n-f. execution or implementation (of something) | |
| 8. n-f. methods, process, way (of doing or achieving something) | |
| 9. n-f. set of customs in a country or group of people | |
| C'est la pratique de ce pays. - Those are the customs of this country. | |
| 10. n-f. experience | |
| C'est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. - This is a man with business experience. | |
| 11. n-f. act of frequenting | |
| Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. - He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people. | |
| 12. n-f. clientele, regular clients | |
| La pratique n'afflue pas à ce magasin. - Customers don't flow to that store. | |
| Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique. - You’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business. | |
| 13. n-f. (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine) | |
| On donna pratique à ce navire après qu'il eut fait la quarantaine. - We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine. | |
| 14. n-f. a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism | |
| 15. v. first-person singular present of pratiquer | |
| 16. v. third-person singular present of pratiquer | |
| 17. v. second-person singular imperative of pratiquer | |
| pratiquer |
| 1. v. to do; to practise | |
| Le |
| 1. Proper noun. surname, from=Vietnamese | |
| 2. art. the (definite article) | |
| Le lait du matin. - The milk of the morning. | |
| 3. art. Used before abstract nouns; not translated in English. | |
| L'amour est aveugle. - Love is blind. | |
| 4. art. (before parts of the body) the; my, your, etc. | |
| Il s’est cassé la jambe. - He has broken his leg. | |
| 5. art. (before units) a, an | |
| Cinquante kilomètres à l’heure. - fifty kilometres an hour | |
| 6. pron. (direct object) him, it | |
| Où est Malik ? Je ne le vois pas. - Where is Malik? I don't see him. | |
| Mon sac ? Je vais le mettre dans la voiture. - My bag? I'm going to put it in the car. | |
| 7. pron. used to refer to something previously mentioned or implied; not translated in English | |
| Je suis petit et lui, il l’est aussi. - ... and he is it too | |
| indulgence |
| 1. n-f. leniency, clemency | |
| 2. n-f. (Roman Catholicism) indulgence | |
| 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. | |
| pardonne |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of pardonner | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present of pardonner | |
| 3. v. second-person singular imperative of pardonner | |
| pardonner |
| 1. v. to pardon, forgive | |
| 2. v. to excuse | |
| aisément |
| 1. adv. easily | |
| les |
| 1. art. plural of le: the | |
| 2. art. plural of la: the | |
| 3. pron. plural of le: them | |
| 4. pron. plural of la: them | |
| fautes |
| 1. n. plural of faute | |
| fauter |
| 1. v. to make a mistake, to mess up | |
| faute |
| 1. n-f. error, mistake | |
| une faute d'orthographe - a spelling mistake | |
| C'est la faute à pas de chance. - It’s bad luck’s fault. | |
| 2. n-f. fault, blame | |
| c'est de ma faute - it's my fault | |
| c'est toujours la faute aux autres - it's always other people's fault | |
| il rejette la faute sur son patron - he laid/put the blame on his boss | |
| 3. n-f. (legal) wrong, misdemeanor | |
| 4. n-f. (sports) foul, fault (infraction of the rules) | |
| ou |
| 1. conj. or | |
| 2. conj. either...or | |
| Ou il est fou ou il est bête. - Either he's mad or he's stupid. | |
| les |
| 1. art. plural of le: the | |
| 2. art. plural of la: the | |
| 3. pron. plural of le: them | |
| 4. pron. plural of la: them | |
| défauts |
| 1. n. plural of défaut | |
| défaut |
| 1. n-m. shortcoming | |
| 2. n-m. defect | |
| 3. n-m. default (computing) | |
