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À Moi Paris Level 4 - ch 1 Flashcards

1
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Être amoureux (m), amoureuse (f )

A

To be in love; Watch out, we don’t say in France “être en amour”

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Quotidienne

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daily; Un quotidien is a daily newspaper

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3
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Une/un lève tôt

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an early bird; Someone that wakes up early

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4
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Le cardio

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cardio-vascular exercises; Colloquial French tends to shorten longer words: abdominaux = abdo, frigidaire = frigo…

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5
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L’assouplissement

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stretching; Masculine

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Traîner

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to linger

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Un look

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a look, a style; Anglicism : une apparence, un style

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Ondulé

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wavy

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Les porte généralement en queue de cheval

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wears it (the hair) in a pony tail; Porter ses cheveux en…

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10
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Retrouver

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to meet up with; Also to find something that was lost

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Ben zut alors

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oh, that’s too bad; Colloquial

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12
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Un sommeil de plomb

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a very deep sleep; Le plomb is lead

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Dormir comme un loir

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to sleep like a log; Idiom - un loir is a rodent that hibernates

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Une tartine

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a slice of bread with jam or honey…; Usually done with baguette - French bread loaf

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Cet aprem’

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this afternoon; Colloquial

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Mon prof de stats

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my statistics teacher; Short for mon professeur de statistiques

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17
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Faire le plein

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to fill a car up with gas; Slang – to stock up on groceries for example

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18
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Elle petit-déjeune

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she takes her breakfast; The correct form is prendre son petit déjeuner, so “elle prend sont petit-déjeuner” but a lot of people use it as a verb

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Filer

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to leave/to run/to flee; Colloquial

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20
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Mi-longs

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medium length

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Laisser/faire pousser

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to let/make something grow; Used a lot for hair, but also plants

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Avoir cours

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to have a class/a lesson

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23
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Coquet, coquette

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liking to look good; This is not negative as it is in English

24
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Une mise en plis

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to style one’s hair with the hair dryer

25
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Faire des chichis

A

to go overboard; Colloquial

26
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Le brillant à lèvre

A

lip gloss

27
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Descendre les escaliers quatre à quatre

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to go downstairs quickly; Idiom, lit to go down the stairs four by four (stair steps)

28
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S’élancer

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to dash off

29
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Être essoufflé

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to be out of breath

30
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Tout juste à l’heure

A

right on time

31
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Avoir lieu

A

to take place

32
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Un tableau

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a black/white board; Also a painting

33
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La bibliothèque

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; Une librairie = a bookstore

34
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Un portable

A

a laptop, but also a cell phone; For the cell phone, it should be un téléphone mobile , but that’s what the French really say. Confusing since un porta­ble is also a laptop.

35
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Un doctorat en informatique

A

a PHD in computer science

36
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N’y connaissent rien

A

know nothing about it

37
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Les études secondaires

A

high school

38
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Une mention

A

departemental honors/ cum laude

39
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S’orienter vers

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to take the direction of; Both physical and mental

40
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Un BTS

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A higher technical studies diploma; Bac + 2 years of additional studies. Stands for brevet technique supérieur.

41
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La direction

A

direction, management

42
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Se faire de l’argent

A

to make money

43
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En commun

A

shared

44
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Diviser

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to divide, to split

45
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La gestion

A

management theory

46
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Perfectionner

A

to perfect

47
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Tout en + verb in “ant”

A

at the same time as

48
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Des pays en voie de développement

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3rd world countries

49
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Elle s’en fiche

A

she does not give a damn; Colloquial

50
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S’élancer

A

to dash off

51
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Être essoufflé

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to be out of breath

52
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Tout juste à l’heure

A

right on time

53
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Avoir lieu

A

to take place

54
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Un tableau

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a black/white board; Also a painting

55
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La bibliothèque

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; Une librairie = a bookstore

56
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Un portable

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a laptop, but also a cell phone; For the cell phone, it should be un téléphone mobile , but that’s what the French really say. Confusing since un porta­ble is also a laptop.

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