All Vocab From the Year Flashcards
L’asile
Asylum/Refuge/Shelter
Enterrement
Funeral (Mine maybe? Who knows. I might just be the walking dead)
Vieillards
Old men
Veiller
Stay
Ainsi
This/As well as/ SO/THUS
(Depends on the context because languages like to screw with you like that. For example, screw in the previous sentence isn’t referring to a metal thing the hold parts together.)
Congé
Vacation time (I don’t think I know what this means in English anymore, but c’est la vie to be French about it)
Patron
Boss (Like me)
Dû
Conjugation of devoir (Because that’s an obvious guess)
En somme
In short
Plutôt
Rather
En deuil
In grief (DEFINITELY me right now)
Revêtir
To assume/Must (Once again, language and context)
Emprunter
To borrow
Assoupi
Asleep
Doute
Doubt
Trajet
Distance (When I see it I think of “trajectory” if that helps you remember, or maybe it confuses you, idk!)
Réveillé
Wake up
Tassé
Packed
Hâte
Haste
Cahots
Jolts
Brassard
Armband (No, it is not a French bastard)
Cravate
Neck tie
Monte
Went
Étourdi
Careless (Like the mistakes on my maths test!)
Chemin à pied
Sidewalk (Directly translated its a “path at foot” but normal people don’t walk on a slab of concrete and think PATH AT FOOT! PATH AT FOOT!)
Accueillir
Meet
Cadre
Executive
Échéance
Date of Payment/Maturity/Expiration (Pretty much just an important day)
Puisqu’elle
Since it
Aboutir
Succeed
Accord
Agreement
En deça
On the side of (Deça also means “hither” which is an old English word along the lines of here, so if you see “deça” you’re reading probably advanced literary text by the equivalent of Shakespeare and are therefore screwed.)
Rapprocher
Bringing together/Bringing closer
Au sein de
Within
Sein
Breast/womb/bosom
L’effect de serre
Greenhouse gasses
Menaces
Threats
Mettre
To put
Manquants
Missing
Approvisionnement
Availability/Stock
Vingt-et-unième
21st
Ministre
Minster (The political kind, not the religious kind)
S’exprimer
To express oneself (Get your mind out of the gutter)
Dérèglement
Disturbance/Trouble
Croissance
Growth
Constats
Certified statements/Reports
Croître
To grow
Citoyen
Citizens
Défi
Challenge
Baisser les bras
Give up
Bien-être
Well being
Peuple
People (country minimum)
Tout de suite
Right away
Falloir
To need
Recevoir
To recieve
Vieux
Old man (Singular)
Légion
Army (I think ‘legion’ is a word in english too its just kinda died out.)
Légion d’honneur
Military decoration medal thingie
Serré
Tight
Saluer
To greet (Salut!)
En vue
Prominent or Famous
Lors
During/At the time of
Sino-Americaine
Chinese American (Because THAT’S intuitive)
Sous
Under
Contre
Against (I think “contrary” when I see it but that might just screw you up)
Publier
Publish
Au lieu de
Instead of
Panneaux solaire
Solar Panels
Conduire
To drive (cars, not golf)
La douche
The shower (Sorry, we aren’t discussing your ex)
Se doucher
To shower (Still nothing to do with your ex)
Le bain
The bath
Éconmiser
To save (Anything except files and people)
Être recouvert
To be covered
Moitié
Half
Un éco-citoyen
Eco-citizen
Éteindre
To extinguish
Lutte
Struggle
Sigle
Acronym
GES
Gaz à effet de serre (Greenhouse gases, learn your frickin vocab)
PIB
GDP (Take Econ if you don’t know what that means)
Sa richesse
Your wealth
La fonte
Melting (In a noun form, because logic)
Le réchauffement climatique
Global warming
La terre
Earth or land
L’utilisation
Use
L’épuisement
Exhaustion
La surpêche
Overfishing
La deforestation
Deforestation (No, duh, Sherlock)
Les pesticides
Pesticides (Never would have guessed -.-)
Les herbicides
Herbicides (No, really?)
Une espèce
A species
La surconsommation
Over comsumption
Le bouleversement
Upheaval
La désertication
Desertification (It’s elementary, dear Watson)
Le manque
Lack
L’eau potable
Drinkable water
Les déchets
Waste/Trash
L’augmentation
Increase
La chasse
Hunting
La combustion
Combustion (Fire and stuff)
Le charbon
Coal
La volonté
Willpower (What you think is enough to pass the IB but isn’t)
Une récolte
Harvest
L’accumulation
Accumulation/build up (Dear French, I know English)
S’accumuler
To build up/to accumulate
l’amélioration
Improvement
S’améliorer
To improve yourself
La dégradation
Damage
Se degrader
To worsen/to degrade
La destruction
Destruction (Mashalla)
Détruire
To destroy
La disparition
Disappearance
Disparaître
To disappear
L’endommagement
Damage
Endommager
To damage
Le gaspillage
Waste
Gaspiller
To waste
La pollution
Pollution
Polluer
To pollute (HARAM! Oh, wait, I meant highway. As in look at the highway to Jeddah)
La préservation
Protection/Preservation
Préserver
To protect/to preserve
La protection
Protection (No, it means squirrel -.-)
Protéger
To protect
Le réchauffement
The heating
Réchauffer
To reheat
La récupération
Recuperation
Le recyclage
The recycling
Recycler
To recycle
La réduction
The reduction
Réduire
To reduce
Lutter
To fight (THE IB!)
Modifier
To modify
La modification
Change/modification
Une habitude
Habitat
Un procédé
A process
Décontaminer
To decontaminate
La décontamination
Decontamination
Le sol
The ground
Composter
To compost/To validate a ticket (Cuz those are related)
Le compostage
Compost
Radioactif
Radioactive (Like the song by Imagine Dragons)
Traiter
To deal with (Par example: Je ne traite pas l’école)
Le traitement
Treatment
Entreposer
To store
Un entrepôt
Warehouse
Délaisser
To neglect
Le délaissement
Neglect
Privilégier
To favor
Un privilège
A privilege (That accent gone go mess me up)
Les produits biologique
Organic food
Une alimentation
A diet (Shudders)
Une économie
A saving
Cesser
To cease
La cessation
Cancelation
En voie d’extinction
Endangered
Créer
To create
La création
Creation
Sauvage
Wild
Interdire
To forbid
L’interdiction
Ban
Grâce a
Thanks to
Mener
To lead
Le pétrole
Oil
Remplacer
To replace
Le replacement
Replacement
Énergie renouvelable
Renewable energie
Solaire
Solar
Éolienne
Wind
Une accusation
Accusation
Accuser
To accuse
Constater
To notice
Renouveller
Renew
Le renouvellement
Renewal
Retirer
To withdraw
Soutien
Supporter/dependant
Subvenir
To provide for
Tâche
Work (Travail/Devoir)
Rédigez
Write (Écrire)
Dessalement
Desalination
Pékin
Beijing (Where the floop did that come from?)
Contraingnant
Contraints
Serré sur les mains
Shake hands
Désormais
By/From now
La légende
Legend/Caption
Glaciologue
Guy who studies glaciers
Epaisseur
Thickness
Tienir
To hold
l’ONU
The UN
Compte
Total/Sum
Ouverture
Opening
Dressé
Erect (Make Stand)
Bilan
Balance sheet/Appraisal/Assessment
Ver
Worm/maggot (Like you)
Vers
Line of Poetry/Verse
Davantage
More
ONG
NGO
Conjuguées
Combined/Joint
Solidaire
Alone/Loner
Basculer
To topple/To fall over
Pauvreté
Poverty
Banque
Bank
Rappeler
To remind/To call back/To recall
Indissociable
Inseperable
Pauvres
Poor/Impoverished
Perdre
To lose
Diriger
To run (a business)/To manage
Patrimoine
Heritage/Inheritance
Bétail
Livestock
Logement
Housing/Accomodations
Consacrant
To sanction/To consecrate/To set aside
Alimentaires
Food
Subvention
Subsidy
La baisse
Drop
La hausse
Raise
Ménage
Houshold
Foyer
Household/Fireplace
Rafale
Rapid fire
Franchie
Jump
Naufrage
Sinking
Énumérer
To list
Lancé
Important
Dérangé
Screw up
Promouvoir
To promote
Militer
To be a militant/activist
Rendre
To give back
La une
Front page
Title principale
Headline
Cadavre
Dead body
Salle du concert
Concert Hall
Aveugle
Blind/sightless
Dirigeants
Rulers
Je doute que
I doubt that (Par example: je doute que tu est intelligent)
Fut
Passé subjonctif of être (How the floop did you get there?)
DO NOT USE THIS IN YOUR OWN WRITING BECAUSE YOU SUCK AT FRENCH AND THIS IS HARD AND WEIRD!
Tôt
Early
Tard
Late
Va-et-vient
Come and go
Si bien que
So that
Archipel
Archipelago
Compte
Count/sum/total/accountant
Eux
Them
Se suivre
To follow one another
Retirer
To take away
Presque
Nearly
Impressioner
To impress/distress (because those are the same)
Disposition
Disposal (ex: “I am at your disposal”)
Athée
Atheist
Brou de noix
Walnut colored wood
Près
Near
Sarrau
Overalls/smock
Foulard
Scarf
Bégayé
Stammered
Gêné
Embarassed
Sentais
Felt
Tortillant
Twisted (Like a burrito)
Chancre
Plague
Frelon
Hornet
Bourdonner
To buzz
Étonné
Amazed
Concierge
A gossip/janitor
Enterrer
To bury
Appris
Past participle of apprendre (to learn aka the thing i seem incapable of doing)
Vécu
Past participle of vivre (to live aka something else I’m not doing)
On s’est fait
We were taken in/drawn in
Corbillard
Hearse
Raconter
To tell
Rougir
To go red
Indigent
The poor
Dont
Whose
Brusquement
Suddenly
Épaisser
To thicken
Au-dessus
Above
La verrière
Glass roof
Commutateur
Switch
Éclabousser
To splash
Soudain
Suddenly
Réfectoire
Dining Hall
Fierté
Pride
Entendre
To hear
Susciter
To invoke
Plusieurs
Several (people)
Embrassade
A hug and a kiss
Tandis que
While/whereas
Ampleur
Fullness/scope
Inédit
Unedited
Tournant
Turning point
Reléguer
To regulate
Côté
Side
Ère
Era
Plancher
To work on
Apporter
To bring
Tasse de café
Coffee cup
Devant
In front of
Aucune
No/none/without any
Veiller
Cherish
Coutume
Custom
L’éclat
Sliver
Empile
Stacked
Autour
Around
Assis
Sat down
Au fond
At the bottom
Le dos
The back (of a chair)
Tricoter
To knit
Frôlement
Light touch
Somnoler
Doze off
Éclatante
Bright
Blancheur
Whiteness
Paru
Appeared
Ombre
Shadow
Courbes
Curves
Dizaine
Group of ten
Glisser
Slide along
Blessante
Painful
Aveuglante
Blinding
Grinçat
Squeaky
Échapper
To escape
Pourtant
Yet/even so
Tablier
Apron/smock/overalls
Cordon
Lace/cord/string
À la taille de
In keeping with
Ressortir
Remove/leave
Ventre
Stomach
Bombé
Bulging
Maigre
Thin
Canne
Cane
Lueur
Glow/Glimmer/Light
Au milieu de
In the middle of
Nid
Nest
Ride
Wrinkle
Lorsque
When
Lorsqu’il
When it/When he
La plupart
Most (syn: la majoritié)
Hocher
To nod
Lèvre
Lip
Bière
Beer (Haram)
Améliorer
To improve
Plaidoyer
Plea/speech for the defence of
Sort
Destiny
Grillager
To put a fence around
Partout
Everywhere
Pousser
To push
Gratte-ciel
Sky scraper
Refaire
To redo
Mouche
Flies
Occidental
Western/westerner
Cimetières
Cemeteries
Fonctionnement
The functioning/working
Osciller
To swing/sway
Entre
Between
Accablant
Overwhelming/oppresive
Désespoir
Despair
Pacte
Agreement
Propos
Subject/intention/topic
Métrage
Measurement
Lequel
Who/which
Léchée
Highly polished
S’enchainer
To follow along/to be linked together
Lent
Slow
Efficace
Effective
Leitmotiv
Recurring theme
Assener
To strike/to deliver
Marteler
To hammer
Coup
Blow/block
Outil
Tool
Vœu
Wish
Bientot
Soon
Pénurie
Destitution
Renoncer
To give up
Malgré
In spite of/despite
Comportement
Behaviour
Nœud
Knot
Oser
To dare
Pencher
To lean over/to tilt
Secouer
To shake
Bredouiller
To mumble
Venir
To come
Assez
Enough
Renseigner
To inform
Lier
To connect
Soupir
Sigh (My default reaction atm)
Sanglot
Sob (MEEEEEEEEEE!)
Reniffler
To sniff at/To sniffle
Une frontière
Border
Un réfugié
Refugee
Un mur de barbelés
A wall of barbed wire
Illégal
Illegal
Un émigrant
Emigrant
Un droit
A right
Un camp de réfugiés
Refugee camp
L’asile politique
Political asylum
Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU)
The United Nations (UN)
Sana papier
Undocumented (referring to immigrants)
Les payes voisin
Neighboring countries
La crise humanitaire
Humanitarian crisis
Extrêmiste
Extremist
S’intégrer
To integrate oneself
La corruption
Coruption
Un conflit
Conflict
Une expulsion
Expulsion
Un bateau
Boat
Victimes
Victims
Un orphelien
Orphan
Une manifestation
Demonstration
Un manifestant
Demonstrator/protester
La fuite
Escape
Une résolution
Resolution
Gagner sa vie
Earn a living
La dureté
Hardship
Se noyer
To sink
L’union européene
European Union
Le parlement
Parliament
Une cité
Public housing
Une banlieue
Suburb
Fuir
To escape
La sécurité
Security
Les pauvre
Poor people
Sans emploi
Unemployed
La législation
Legislation
Une loi
Law
Un bidonville
Slums
Organisation non-gouvernementale (ONG)
Non-government organization (NGO)
HCR (haut comité aux réfugiés)
UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees)
La récré
Recreation
J’ai un ordi
I have a laptop
il fait du vent
There is wind
de bonne humeur
in a good mood
soutenir
to support
un soutien
a support
se faire des amis
to make friends
un atout
an asset
efficaces
efficient
un enjeu
an issue/stake
une menance
a threat
mettre en place
to implement
une mouche
a fly
être conftronté à un problème
to face a problem
faire face à un problème
to face a problem
affronter
to face
un entreprise
a company
notamment/spécialement
specially
surtout
specially
un enseignant
a teacher
agir
to take action
sembler/ressembler à qn
to look like
larme
teardrop
être impliqué dans
to be involved in
rendre visite à qn
to visit someone
aller voire qn
to go see someone
je n’ai que 10 riyals
I only have 10 riyals
mener une vie heureuse
have a good life
certaines personnes
certain ppl
bien se passer
to go well
désargrément
inconvenience
monter/grimper
to climb
planifier
to plan
un horaire
a schedule
un processus
a process
gagner de l’argent
to earn money
je me suis bien amusé
I had a good time
tout ira bien
everything will be alright
un tournoi de basket
basketball tournament
l’équipe de l’école
the school team
un match de foot
a soccer game
néanmoins
nevertheless
interlocuteur
speaker
