84. Old Age Flashcards by Tanguy Cloix

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Les personnes âgées

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Old people

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Un vieil homme

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An old man

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Une personne du troisième âge

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A senior citizen

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Vieillir

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To grow old

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Prendre de l’âge

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To be getting on in years

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Les plus de 70 ans

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The over-70s

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Un septuagénaire

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A seventy-year-old man

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Un octogénaire

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A eighty-year-old man

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Un centenaire

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A centenarian

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Grisonner

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To go grey

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Un homme aux cheveux blancs

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A white-haired man

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Avoir des cheveux blancs

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To have white hair

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Etre chauve / la calvitie

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To be bald / baldness

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Une ride

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A wrinkle / a line

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Les infirmités de la vieillesse

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The infirmities of old age

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Vulnérable

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Vulnerable

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Handicapé

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Disabled

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L’impuissance sexuelle

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Impotence

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Impuissant sexuellement

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Impotent

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La faiblesse / faible

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Weakness / weak

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S’affaiblir

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To weaken

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La maladie

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Illness / sickness

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Etre en bonne / mauvaise santé

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To be in good health

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La sénilité / sénile

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Senility / senile

Perdre la mémoire

To lose one's memory

La perte de mémoire

Memory loss

La maladie d'Alzheimer

Alzheimer's disease

Nécessiter des soins particuliers

To require special care

Etre grabataire

To be bed-ridden

Une maison de retraite

A home from the aged

Une maison médicalisée

A nursing home

La gériatrie

Geriatrics

Un gérontologue

A gerontologist

Le racisme anti-vieux

Agism

Etre rejeté par la société

To be rejected by society

Le pouvoir économique des personnes âgées

Grey power