| une |
| 1. num. feminine singular of un | |
| 2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
| 3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
| instruction |
| 1. n-f. instruction | |
| 2. n-f. teaching | |
| 3. n-f. hearing (of a matter in court or similar) | |
| sommaire |
| 1. n-m. a summary | |
| 2. n-m. a table of contents | |
| 3. adj. succinct, short, abridged, that which expresses a subject in few words | |
| 4. adj. devoid of unnecessary comfort, basic | |
| et |
| 1. conj. and | |
| rapide |
| 1. adj. fast, rapid | |
| 2. adv. (informal) fast; rapidly; quickly | |
| 3. n-m. (especially in plural) rapid (stretch of river) | |
| 4. n-m. express (fast train) | |
| avait |
| 1. v. third-person singular imperfect indicative of avoir | |
| avoir |
| 1. n-m. asset, possession | |
| 2. v. to have (to own; to possess) | |
| J'aimerais avoir 20 dollars. - I would like to have 20 dollars. | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) | |
| J'ai parlé. - I have spoken, I spoke. | |
| Qu'est-ce que vous m'avez fait ? - What have you done to me? | |
| 4. v. to have (a condition) | |
| J'ai faim. - I have hunger. | |
| J'ai soif. - I have thirst. | |
| J'ai froid. - I have cold. | |
| J'ai chaud. - I have hot. | |
| J'ai la chiasse. - I have the shits. | |
| J'ai le rhume. - I have a cold. | |
| J'ai le SIDA. - I have AIDS. | |
| J'ai de la fièvre. - I've got a fever. | |
| 5. v. to have (a measure or age) | |
| Elle a 19 ans. - She has 19 years. | |
| 6. v. to have (to trick) | |
| Tu t'es fait avoir. - You've been had. | |
| 7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) | |
| avoir des relations sexuelles - to have sexual relations | |
| 8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive | |
| J'ai à vous parler. - I have to talk to you. | |
| relevé |
| 1. Participle. past participle of relever | |
| 2. adj. turned up (of collar); rolled up (of sleeves) | |
| 3. adj. held up, high; elevated | |
| 4. adj. (of style, conversation) elevated, lofty, sophisticated | |
| 5. adj. (cooking) strongly seasoned, spicy | |
| 6. n-m. statement, summary | |
| 7. n-m. bill | |
| 8. n-m. list (of addresses etc.) | |
| 9. n-m. (construction etc) layout | |
| 10. n-m. (exercise) crunch, raise | |
| 11. n-m. (dance) relevé | |
| relever |
| 1. v. to stand up (again); to stand, to right (a vehicle etc.) | |
| 2. v. to help (someone) to their feet; to help up | |
| 3. v. to pull up (socks etc.); to lift, raise (skirt etc.) | |
| 4. v. to put up (hair) | |
| 5. v. to heighten, raise, lift (up); to increase | |
| 6. v. to restore, rebuild | |
| 7. v. to season (food) | |
| 8. v. to take down, note, copy out | |
| 9. v. to react to, answer, respond to | |
| 10. v. to ride up (of clothes) | |
| 11. v. to get up again, get to one's feet | |
| 12. v. to take up (a challenge) | |
| 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 | |
| charges |
| 1. n. plural of charge | |
| 2. v. second-person singular present of charger | |
| charger |
| 1. v. to load (up) (vehicle, animal etc.) | |
| 2. v. to load (firearm) | |
| 3. v. to charge (battery) | |
| 4. v. to put in charge; to charge (somebody with doing something) | |
| 5. v. to charge (somebody of a crime) | |
| 6. v. (military, sports) to charge | |
| 7. v. (theater) to overact, ham it up | |
| 8. v. to take care of, see to | |
| charge |
| 1. n-f. load, burden | |
| charge pesante - heavy load | |
| 2. n-f. cargo, freight | |
| La charge de ce bateau est de cinquante tonneaux. - The freight of this boat is fifty tons. | |
| 3. n-f. responsibility, charge | |
| J'ai la charge de vous dire que... - I have the responsibility to tell you that... | |
| 4. n-f. (legal) charge | |
| Ce fait constitue une charge très grave contre le prévenu. - This fact constitutes a very serious charge against the accused. | |
| 5. n-f. (military) charge | |
| une charge massive contre les positions allemandes - a massive charge against the German positions | |
| 6. n-f. caricature, comic exaggeration | |
| 7. n-f. (physics) charge | |
| 8. n-f. (heraldry) charge | |
| 9. n-f. (in the plural) costs, expenses | |
| 10. v. first-person singular present of charger | |
| 11. v. third-person singular present of charger | |
| 12. v. second-person singular imperative of charger | |
| 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. | |
| pesaient |
| 1. v. third-person plural imperfect indicative of peser | |
| peser |
| 1. v. to weigh (to have a weight of) | |
| Je pèse 80 kilos - I weigh 80 kilos | |
| 2. v. (computers, intransitive) of a file, to have a given size | |
| Les pièces jointes doivent peser moins de 8 Mo. - Attachments must be under 8 megabytes. | |
| 3. v. to weigh (to see how much something weighs) | |
| Il faut peser les abricots - You must weigh the apricots | |
| 4. v. to burden, weigh down | |
| Ça lui pèse. - 'That weighs on his mind.' | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
