voix |
1. n-f. (general, music, linguistics) voice | |
Ta voix suivait ma voix. - Your voice followed my voice. | |
2. n-f. (politics) vote | |
Blanche |
1. Proper noun. given name, female | |
2. n-f. female equivalent of Blanc | |
3. adj. feminine singular of blanc | |
Cette page est blanche. (This page is blank/white.) | |
4. n-f. (music) minim, half note | |
blanc |
1. adj. white color | |
Ce lait est blanc. - This milk is white. | |
2. adj. blank, unused | |
3. adj. (figurative, one's look) blank, without expression | |
4. n-m. white (color) | |
5. n-m. silence while in a dialog | |
6. n-m. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form | |
Inscrivez votre nom dans le blanc en bas de la page. - Write your name in the blank at the bottom of the page. | |
7. n-m. (informal) white wine | |
Le poisson se mange avec du blanc. - fish is eaten with white wine. | |
8. n-m. white person, person with a white complexion | |
9. n-m. albumen, egg white | |
10. n-m. white meat | |
11. n-m. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex | |
voix |
1. n-f. (general, music, linguistics) voice | |
Ta voix suivait ma voix. - Your voice followed my voice. | |
2. n-f. (politics) vote | |
Claire |
1. Proper noun. given name, female, eq=Clara | |
2. adj. feminine singular of clair | |
3. v. first-person singular present of clairer | |
4. v. third-person singular present of clairer | |
5. v. second-person singular imperative of clairer | |
clairer |
1. v. to enlighten | |
clair |
1. adj. clear (see-through) | |
2. adj. clear (understandable) | |
3. adj. (of a color) light (having a light shade, not dark) | |
bleu clair - light blue | |
4. n-m. light | |
5. adv. clearly | |
Il voit clair. - He sees clearly. | |
mais |
1. conj. but, although | |
2. interj. an expression of surprise, disbelief, or frustration roughly equivalent to the English well, or sometimes yeah | |
Mais qu'est-ce que tu fais ? - What the heck are you doing? | |
3. n. plural of mai | |
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. | |
manque |
1. n-m. lack, absence | |
le manque d'amour maternel - the lack of maternal love | |
2. n-m. stress due to drug withdrawal | |
3. v. first-person singular present of manquer | |
4. v. third-person singular present of manquer | |
5. v. second-person singular imperative of manquer | |
6. n-f. only used in, à la manque | |
manquer |
1. v. (indirect transitive, ;, object marked with preposition de) to lack, to be lacking in | |
Je manque de temps. - I don't have enough time. | |
2. v. (Used as English uses to miss (to feel a sadness caused by the absence of something, distance from a place, and longing to reunite therewith) more lite | |
Tu me manques. - You are missed by me./You are lacking to me. | |
3. v. to be missing or lacking to | |
La sottise ne manque pas là. - There is no lack of stupidity here. | |
4. v. to miss out | |
5. v. * 1996, Noir Désir, (lang, À ton étoile) | |
6. v. *: quote, fr | |
7. v. , Ça m'a manqué, tout ça, quand tu sauvais la face à bien d'autres que moi. | |
8. v. , I missed out on that, all of that, when you were saving face for many more than me. | |
9. v. to miss, to fail | |
J'ai manqué mon train. - I missed my train. | |
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 | |
timbre |
1. n-m. small bell | |
2. n-m. (postage) stamp, postage stamp | |
3. n-m. stamp (mark) | |
4. n-m. (music) timbre | |
timbrer |
1. v. to stamp (attach a postage stamp to) | |
2. v. to stamp (mark with a stamp) | |