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2018 11 Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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I have a super busy morning.

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J’ai une matinée hyper chargée.

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To give up siege, yield power
He gave me his seat

To give in to sleep, yield to temptation

To force a door, lock

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Céder siège, pouvoir à qqn
Il m’a cédé sa place

Céder à sommeil, tentation, menace

Faire céder une porte, serrure

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Soft light
Sweet wine
Mild weather
  It’s mild today
Gentle slope
How sweet it is to be loved!
How lovely to get into bed
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Doux, douce 
Lumière, vin,temps,pente
  Il fait doux aujourd’hui 
Qu’il est doux d’être aimé !
Qu’il est doux d’aller se coucher!
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To inquire about st. (Informal)

To ask what sb is doing

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S’enquérir de
S’enquérir de ce que qqn fait
S’enquérir de la santé de qn

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Before; as before
We’ll do as we did before

Shortly before

Previously, formerly, beforehand
Previously he was ambassadeur

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Auparavant; comme auparavant
Nous ferrons comme auparavant

Peu auparavant

Il était auparavant ambassadeur

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Exasperating
He’s exasperatingly slow

To exasperate, drive up the wall

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Horripilant, horripilante

Il est d’une lenteur horripilante

Horripiler

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To collapse
To make st collapse

To collapse with laughter, exhaustion
He was “slumped” on his bed

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Écrouler, S’écrouler
faire écrouler qqc

S’Écrouler de rire, de fatigue

Il était écroulé sur son lit

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Knowledge
I met them yesterday
To lose consciousness

Gratitude
Full of gratitude

Recognition

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La connaissance
J’ai fait leur connaissance hier
Perdre connaissance

La reconnaissance
Plein de reconnaissance

La reconnaissance

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Recognized by law
Country recognized in 1990

Known to be reliable

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Reconnu par la loi
Pays reconnu DEPUIS 1990

Être reconnu fiable

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To be recognizable BY st

Grateful

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Être reconnaissable à qqc

Reconnaissant, reconnaissante

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Pathetic, lousy, petty, crummy, a loser

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Minable

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To drop a bomb
To launch a ship

Informal: to give up, abandon studies; get dumped

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Larguer une bombe

Larguer études,
Se faire larguer

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To have a hard time. Doing st
To slave away. (Informal)

To be condemned to the galleys
A dog’s life. Informal
It’s a pain! Informal

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Galérer pour fair qqc

Galérer

Condamne aux galères
Vie de galère
C’est galère!

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To summon a person to

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Mander personne à

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Dated, archaic: virgin, maid

The maid of Orléans

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La pucelle d’Orleans

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Ugly girl

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Une laideron

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Plenty, aplenty
There are plenty of apples
He’s full of ideas

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Il y a des pommes à foison

Il a des idées à foison /fuh wa z~ohn/

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18
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Droppings

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Les fiente. / fee AHNT/

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19
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To sniff the air

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Humer

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20
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Very vulgar: Asshole

To bugger
Fuck off!
To split hairs. Still very rude!

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Enculé, enculée

Enculer
Allez-vous faire enculer
Enculer les mouches

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Tramp, down and out

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Un clochard, une clocharde

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Informal: to annoy, hassle
Polite?: to bore to death

to be bored stiff

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Emmerder

S’emmerder

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Lunatic, nut, cracked

An oddball

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Un zinzin, zinzin

Énergumène

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24
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To blow nose

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Moucher, se moucher

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Ugly, ghastly
The weather is awful today.

Fly, Bull’s eye
Hit the bullseye, be right on target
He wouldn’t hurt a fly

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Moche
Il fait moche aujourd’hui /m uh sh/

Une Mouche /m oo sh/
Faire mouche
Il ne ferait pas de mal à une moucher

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Slang:
Conk, schnoz, nose

Bang!

She can’t stand him.

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Le pif

Pif!

Elle ne peux pas le piler

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27
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Plonk cheap wine

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La vinasse

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To size sb up, measure size of reservoir

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Jauger personne, un Réservoir

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To sap, undermine
Its wearing me down

This land is mined

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Miner
Cela me mine
Miné par les soucis

Le terrain est miné

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Insane, frenzied

Maniac
A workaholic

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Forcené

C’est une travailleuse forcenée

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31
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Boiler
Gas
Wood

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Une chaudière à bois, à gaz

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I admit, I was rather hurt…

To admit, confess

To hurt, to hurt oneself

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J’avoue que j’ai été assez meurtrie…

Avouer

Meurtrir, se meurtrir
Meurtris, is, it,
meurtrissons, issez, meurtrissent

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33
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Let me see!

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Fais voir

Faites voir!

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34
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To fall for it

To pull sb leg
I was just pulling your leg.

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Marcher

Faire marcher
Je te faisais marcher.

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35
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Crazy. A nutcase

Informal:
Crazy,nuts

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Foldingue

Siphonné, siphonnée. /SEE fun ay/

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Informal:
To fiddle with.
To grope, but as in. Mr. Trump gropes women

Don’t touch the pears, please.

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Tripoter

M trump tripote les femmes.

On ne tripote pas les poivrons, svp

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37
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Old banger (car)

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Une Vieille bagnole

38
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A skunk

Scream one’s head off

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Un putois

Crier comme un putois

39
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An infection

To smell bad, to stink

Fig.: to be disgusting

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Une infection

Être une infection

40
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Informal: a little house, a dump

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Une bicoque

41
Q

Slang:
Take it easy!
Go easy on the wine!

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Vas-y mollo. /muhllo/

Vas-y mollo avec le vin

42
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To splash, paddle, squelch, flounder about

In water, mud, snow

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Patauger. /pay toh ZHay/

….dans la boue, neige

43
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The meal was excellent/not good

a real bunch of lazybones.

The much talked about conference

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Le repas étais fameux/pas fameux

Une fameuse bande de fainéants

Le fameuse conférence

44
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The weather is lovely.

A charming, lovely man

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Il fait un temps délicieux .

Un homme délicieux

45
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To flirt with

To get close to (fig.)

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Flirter avec

46
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Informal: to eat

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Boulotter

47
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A double

He’s the spitting image of you!

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Un sosie

C’est ton sosie!

48
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It’s a deal!

Cheap, cheaper

Informal: to top it off…

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Marché conclu!

Bon marché, meilleur marché

Par-dessus le marché

49
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To buy back
I’m going to buy more wine
To redeem

To redeem oneself. In the eyes of. By.

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Racheter
Je vais Racheter du vin. Mines all drunk
Racheter

Se racheter aux yeux de… par

50
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Modest

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Modique

51
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Informal:
To scheme, use trickery

Scheming, a trick

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Finasser

Une finasserie

52
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Business: a deposit

To put down, paya deposit

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Un arrhes. / ahrrr/

Verser un arrhes

53
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A tramp. Informal

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Clochard, clocharde

Un clodo

54
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Exhausting, hilarious

To puncture, burst;
To exhaust
This child is exhausting me.

To be freezing, starving, dying of the heat

Sink or swim!

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Crevant

Crever
Cet enfant me crève

Crever de faim, froid, chaud

Marche ou crève

55
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A mutt

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Clébard, clebs

56
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To fiddle with, doctor

Trafficker, dealer (drugs, other illegal)

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Trafiquer

Traffiquqant, trafiquante

57
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To fit together

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Emboîter

58
Q

To disappoint

I’m disappointed in you.

Disappointing

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Décevoir

Tu me déçois.

Décevant, décevante

59
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Fossé

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Douve. / doo v/

60
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To duck, dodge, sidestepped

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Esquiver

61
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Tubby

Informal: job
To work!
You did a great job.

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Boulot, boulotte

Boulot
Au boulot!
Tu as fait du bon boulot

62
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Handy, convenient
Easy

Chest of drawers

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Commode

63
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To grind, crush

To be in the doldrums

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Broyer

Broyer du noir

64
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Grant, scholarship

Purse

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Une bourse

65
Q

Jumbo jumbo, gobbledygook

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La charabia

66
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Archaic: nay

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Nenni

67
Q

To turn purple

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Violacer

68
Q

Moldy

Mold

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Moisi. /mwa zee/. Equal stress both syllables

Moisissure /mwa zee syur/
Odeur de moisissure

69
Q

Récolter, to gather

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Moissonner

70
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To be scared stiff

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Avoir la trouille

71
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To frustrate, evade, foil

To frustrate the tricks of the enemy

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Déjouer

Déjouer les pièges de l’ennemie

72
Q

To puzzle

Diversion

Crushing defeat

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Dérouter

Déroutement

Déroute

73
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To slaughter (animal)
To destroy
To bring down (tyrant)
To pull down (wall,  building)
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Abattre

Abats, abats, abat,
Abattons, ez, ent

74
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There are flashes of lightening

Brief meeting
Quick visit
Fast meal
Blitzkrieg

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Il y a des éclairs

Rencontre éclair
Visite éclair
Repas éclair
Guerre éclair

75
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Lighting
Dim lighting
In that light…
Gas lighting

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Éclairage
Éclairage faible
Sous cet éclairage
Éclairage au gaz

76
Q

To lighten, to clarify

Sunny spell; break in weather

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Éclaircir

Éclaircie

77
Q

Changer d’avis

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Raviser

78
Q

Failed attempt
Ruined cake
Wasted life
Disappointing film

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Tentative manqué
Gâteau
Vie
Film

79
Q

To soil, make dirty
Soiled, dirty
Tâche
A slob

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Souiller
Souillé
Souillure
Une souillon

80
Q

Lively

Liveliness, spirit, get up and go
To be / not to be very lively
She is full of life

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Entraînant

Un entrain. /ahn trahn/
Être plein/manquer d’entrain
Elle est plein d’entrain

81
Q

To move closer to

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Rapprocher de

82
Q

Mistake
To make a stupid mistake

Fault, failing, defect

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Une faute
Faire une bêtise

Un défaut

83
Q

A blooper
Watch out, you’re going to fall.
You must watch out.

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Une gaffe
Fais gaffe, tu vas tombé!
Il faut faire gaffe.

84
Q

Se comporter toward, with

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Se conduire envers, avec
Il se conduit comme idiot

Tiens-Toi bien!

Est-ce que l’ordinateur marche?

85
Q

To turn on

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Actionner

86
Q

To doubt that
I doubt that she’ll come tonight

To have doubts about
To doubt the innocence of

To suspect
I thought as much!

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Douter que
Je doute qu’elle vienne ce soir

Douter de
Douter l’innocence de

Se douter
Je m’en doutais!

87
Q

To arrange
To arrange chairs along a wall

To have at one’s disposal
You have 5 minutes…

Formal: thank you. You may go.

A

Disposer
…des chaises le long d’un mur

Disposer de
Vous disposer 5 minutes ..

Vous pouvez disposer.

88
Q

I can’t bring myself to believe it…

I can’t believe it…

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Je n’arrive pas à y croire

89
Q

To mumble

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Bredouiller

90
Q

To hold an spellbound

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Tenir qn en haleine

91
Q

To eat. (5)

But NEVER: (1)

Informal 1

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Déguster, déjeuner, petit déjeuner, goûter, dîner

Ne jamais: manger!

Informal: bouffer

92
Q

Kill them all! He bellowed.
To howl with pain, rage, anger

To rev engine

A

Tues-les tous! Rugit-il
Rugir de douleur, rage, colère

Faire rougir. [le moteur?]

French 2018 (10 decks)

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