| familier |
| 1. adj. familiar (known to one) | |
| 2. adj. (linguistics) familiar, informal, colloquial (lexicon) | |
| beaucoup |
| 1. adv. much, very much, a lot | |
| Merci beaucoup! - Thank you very much! | |
| Je mange beaucoup. - I eat a lot. | |
| 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 | |
| une |
| 1. num. feminine singular of un | |
| 2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
| 3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
| manière |
| 1. n-f. manner, way | |
| une autre manière de vivre - another way of living | |
| 2. adv. (Louisiana French) somewhat, kinda, sorta, a bit, a little | |
| Alle est manière tchaque drette asteur. - She's kind of drunk right now. | |
| plutôt |
| 1. adv. (obsolete) earlier, sooner | |
| 2. adv. rather, instead (indicating preference) | |
| Je n'aime pas le rouge. Je prends plutôt le noir. - I don't like the red one. I'll take the black one instead. | |
| N'importe quoi plutôt que de faire face à la réalité. - Anything but face reality. | |
| 3. adv. rather (introducing a correction or clarification) | |
| Il y en aura assez, ou plutôt pas trop. - There'll be enough of it, or rather, not too much. | |
| 4. adv. (before an adjective) rather, pretty, kind of | |
| Ce bar est plutôt sale. - This bar is pretty dirty. | |
| importante |
| 1. adj. feminine singular of important | |
| important |
| 1. adj. important | |
| Il est important de se brosser les dents. - It is important to brush your teeth. | |
| 2. adj. large, considerable, significant | |
| Une partie importante des votes - A significant number of the votes | |
| Une tempête de neige est un phénomène météorologique produit par une dépression météorologique hivernale importante. - A snowstorm is a meteorological phenomenon produced by a large winter depr | |
| 3. Participle. present participle of importer | |
