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tourné
1. Participle. past participle of tourner
tourner
1. v. to turn (left, right etc.)
2. v. to stir (e.g. ingredients)
3. v. to tour, to go on tour
4. v. (film) to film, to shoot a film
5. v. (computing, ambitransitive) to run, to execute (a program, an application etc.)
Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur. - To run a program on one's computer.
6. v. to lathe
vers
1. prep. towards
2. prep. to
Elle a traduit les paroles de sa chanson préférée du français vers l'anglais. - She translated the lyrics of her favorite song from French to English.
3. prep. around, circa (with a date or time)
Pouvez-vous nous attendre jusque vers midi ? - Can you wait for us until about noon?
4. n-m. verse
5. n. plural of ver
ver
1. n-m. worm
lui
1. pron. him, he; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject
J'habitais avec lui. - I was living with him.
C'est lui qui a dit cela. - It was him who said that.
Lui, il n'en sait rien. - He doesn't know anything about it.
2. pron. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object
Je lui ai donné le livre. - I gave the book to him/her.
3. Participle. past participle of luire
je
1. pron. I
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
vis
1. n-f. screw (metal fastener)
2. v. first-person singular present indicative of vivre
3. v. second-person singular present indicative of vivre
4. v. second-person singular present imperative of vivre
5. v. first-person singular past historic of voir
6. v. second-person singular past historic of voir
vivre
1. v. to live
vivre comme un roi - live like a king
2. v. to experience
voir
1. v. to see (visually)
Je vois ma mère là-bas. - I see my mother over there.
On ne voit pas souvent de la neige par ici. - One doesn't often see snow around here.
2. v. to see (to understand)
Tu vois que tu avais tort ? - Do you see that you were wrong?
3. v. to see (to visit, to go and see)
4. adv. (Louisiana French) please (used to mark the imperative)
Viens voir ici. - Come here please.
se
1. pron. The third-person reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.
2. pron. (to) himself
3. pron. (to) herself
4. pron. (to) oneself
5. pron. (to) itself
6. pron. (to) themselves
7. pron. (to) each other
8. pron. (Louisiana) (The second-person plural reflexive and reciprocal direct and indirect object pronoun.)
Je suis partie à la chasse et faut vous autres se comportes bien. - I'm going hunting and y'all need to behave yourselves.
replier
1. v. to fold; fold up
2. v. to refold; to fold again
3. v. to curl up, roll up
4. v. to withdraw, retreat, fall back
ainsi
1. adv. in this way, thus
que
1. conj. that (introduces a subordinate noun clause and connects it to its parent clause)
Je vois que tu parles bien français. - I see that you speak French well.
2. conj. Substitutes for another, previously stated conjunction.
Si le temps est beau et que tout le monde est d'accord, nous mangerons en plein air. - If the weather is nice and if everyone likes the idea, we'll eat outside.
3. conj. when, no sooner
Il était à peine parti qu’elle a téléphoné à la police. - No sooner had he left when she called the police.
4. conj. (Links two noun phrases in apposition forming a clause without a (finite) verb, such that the complement acts as predicate.)
5. conj. introduces a comparison
6. conj. (comparisons of superiority or inferiority) than
Il est plus grand que son père. - He is taller than his father.
7. conj. (comparisons of equality) as
Elle est aussi intelligente que toi. - She is as smart as you.
8. conj. (used with ne) only, just; but, nothing but
Je ne mange que des fruits. - I eat nothing but fruit.
9. conj. how (in rhetorical interjections)
Que c'est beau! - How beautiful it is!
Mais que t'es drôle, quoi. - Oh, how funny you are.
10. pron. (tlb, interrogative)
11. pron. (slightly formal, accusative) (The inanimate direct-object interrogative pronoun.)
Que pensez-vous de cette peinture ? - What do you think of that painting?
Qu'auriez-vous fait d'autre ? - What else would you have done?
12. pron. (slightly formal, nominative) (The inanimate subject or predicative interrogative pronoun.)
Qu'est-il arrivé ? - What happened?
Que me vaut cette visite ? - To what do I owe this visit?
Que sommes-nous ? - What are we?
13. pron. (accusative, relative) (The direct object relative pronoun.)
C'est un homme que je connais très bien. - He's a man whom I know very well.
Je viens de lire la lettre que vous m'avez envoyée. - I've just read the letter that you sent me.
ainsi que
1. conj. as, just as, like
Cela s'est passé ainsi que je vous l'ai dit. - It happened just as I told you.
2. conj. as well as
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)
linceul
1. n-m. shroud

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