Chap 84 : Old age Flashcards

1
Q

les personnes âgées

A

the old / the old people / the elderly

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2
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un vieil homme / une vieille femme

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an old man / an old lady

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3
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une personne du troisième âge

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a senior / a senior citizen / a third-ager

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4
Q

vieillir

A

to get old / to grow old

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5
Q

les plus de 70 ans

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the over-70s

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6
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un septuagénaire

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a seventy-year man

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7
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un octogénaire

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an eighty-year man

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8
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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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9
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grisonner

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to go grey

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10
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un homme aux cheveux blancs

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a white-haired man

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11
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avoir les cheveux blancs

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to have white hair

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12
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être chauve / la calvitie

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to be bald / baldness

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13
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une ride

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a wrinkle, a line

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14
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les infirmités de la vieillesse

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the infirmities of old age

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15
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vulnérable

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vulnerable

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16
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handicapé

17
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l’impuissance (sexuelle)

18
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impuissant (sexuellement)

19
Q

la faiblesse / faible

A

weakness, weak

20
Q

s’affaiblir

21
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la maladie

A

illness, sickness

22
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être en bonne / mauvaise santé

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to be in good health / bad health

23
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la sénilité / sénile

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senility, senile

24
Q

perdre la mémoire

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to lose one’s memory

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la maladie d'Alzheimer
Alzheimer's (disease)
26
nécessiter de soins particuliers
to require special care
27
être grabataire
to be bed-ridden
28
une maison de retraite
a home for the aged
29
une maison médicalisée
a nursing home, an old people's home
30
la gériatrie
geriatrics
31
gérontologue
gerontologist, geriatrician
32
l'âgisme, le racisme anti-vieux
agism, ageism, age discrimination
33
être rejeté par la société
to be rejected by society
34
le pouvoir éco des personnes âgées
grey power