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 | |
la |
1. art. the (definite article) | |
2. pron. her, it (direct object) | |
Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her. | |
Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner. | |
3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' | |
continence |
1. n-f. continence | |