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1
Q

Correct?

je suis allé au cinéma
j’ai été au cinéma

A

je suis allé

Use aller whenever motion is involved

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Correct?

Si j’aurais su
Si j’avais su

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Si j’avais su.

Use imparfait, not conditionel, after si

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À ce jour

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today

aujourd’hui

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Correct?

C’est moi qui a fait…
C’est moi qui ai fait…

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C’est moi qui ai fait

C’est moi qui = je

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périmer

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to expire

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une mauviette

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wimp
weakling

une personne chétive

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un camionneur

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lorry driver

transporteur routier

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une pelle à neige

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snow shovel

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museler

A 
to muzzle      (animal)
silence     (eg opponent)
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une frégate

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frigate

submarine chaser

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tenir le choc

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to withstand

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le réveillon

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Christmas eve and New Year’s eve

the after midnight meal of these days

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Quelle différence?

J’imagine que…
Je suppose que…

A

J’imagine is more abstract, based on the picture formed in your mind
Je suppose is more concrete, based on the likely outcome in a specific situation

But, in daily use, these expressions are considered interchangeable

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Quelle différence?

joindre
se joindre
rejoindre

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joindre = to connect together (particularly using technology)
se joindre = to unite (inc people)
rejoindre = to meet up, (implies motion)

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rencontrer

joindre

rejoindre

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used only for first meeting or a chance meeting

to connect, used with people when connecting with people by technology

to meet up with someone (implies motion)

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en fait

au fait

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in fact (used to rectify a preceding idea)

by the way (used to bring in a new or related idea)

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Quel usage?

ça me fait
ça me rend
ça me donne

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ça me fait + verbe (exceptions: peur, envie, mal)
ça me rend + adj
ça me donne + nom

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pointilleux

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fussy

tatillon

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grogner

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to mutter
grumble
groan

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bourgeonner

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to burgeon

bud

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se défendre

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to defend oneself 
justify oneself (against criticism)
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frisotter (vt, vi)

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to twiddle, twist

to curl

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tomber dans le panneau

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to fall for it

be duped

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gaver

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to force feed

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la mignardise
affected grace | petit four
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se changer
to change clothes (only this usage)
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changer de qqc changer qqc
to change qqc (key: substitution) to change qqc (key: transformation)
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les bonnes résolutions
new year’s resolutions
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``` la paresse la flemme (familial) ```
laziness
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poser un lapin
to miss a rendezvous | stand sb up
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monter sur ses grands chevaux
to be quick to anger
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avoir une faim de loup
to be very hungry
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revenons aux moutons
to get back to the subject at hand
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mettre la puce à l’oreille
to warn | tip off
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donner sa langue au char
to give the answer to a riddle
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un devinette
riddle
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mettre la charrue avant les bœufs
to put the cart before the horse une charrue = plough
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il fait un temps de chien
to have really bad weather
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ne pas élever/garder les cochons ensemble
don’t become too familiar
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s’ensuivre
to ensue
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sur ces entrefaites
at that moment entrefaites = at that moment
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Ce n’est pas demain la veille (idiom)
It’s not close to happening.
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un plan de match
game plan
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Quelle différence? s’ennuyer être ennuyé avoir des ennuis
Je m’ennuie = I’m bored Je suis ennuyé = I have a minor problem (eg car problems) J’ai des ennuis = I have a serious problem (eg cancer)
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un pays enclavé
landlocked country
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un tue-l’amour
repulive behaviour
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roter
to burp
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éreinter qn
to exhaust sb | criticize sb
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syndicaliste (adj)
regarding trade unions
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scander
to scan | chant
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à reculons (adv)
backwards
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un ahanement
grunt (due to effort) ahaner = to grunt, pant due to extreme effort
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faires des ravages sur/auprès de qc
to play havoc with st
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une friperie
thrift store
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d’ores et déjà
already
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d’ores et déjà
already
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sans doute
perhaps | probably
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Je m’en doute | Je m’en doutais!
signifies empathetic understanding I can imagine … I thought so! se douter = to suspect, have a premonition
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un jusqu’au-boutiste
headstrong and single minded person
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téméreraire (adj)
reckless
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le je-m’en-foutisme un/une je-m’en-foutiste (also adj)
condition of not caring being indifferent person of this type note: familiar but not vulgar
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je m’en foute | je m’en fiche
I don’t care | not interested
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un intendant
steward
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un catalyseur
catalyst
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une doléance
complaint | demand
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doléant (adj)
grumbling | complaining
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à la veille de
on the eve of | on the verge of
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apposer
to attach | append
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au pif
at random | approximately
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la liesse
jubilation
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le parrainage
sponsorship patronage support appui
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un relooking
make over
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un dressing
wardrobe garde-robe
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un parking
parking area
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un talkie-walkie
walkie-talkie
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le placoplatre
drywall
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limoger
to dismiss (fire) virer
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défectueux (adj)
defective
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prendre un râteau
to fail at seduction | qui donne douleur au cœur
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chevaucher
to overlap
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le chevauchement
overlap
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la recrudescence
increase upsurge escalation
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un agissement
act | wrongdoing
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affûter
to sharpen
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un forêt
forest drill bit forer = to drill
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pharaonique (adj)
enormous | gigantic
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reconquérir
to take back | reconquer
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névralgique (adj)
``` neuralgic key point (fig) ```
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à atteindre pour
to reach for
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se ramifier
to divide into branches
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la ramification
ramification | consequence
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de passage
visiting
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en sursis
on borrowed time | on probation
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avoir du pain sur la planche
to have many tasks to do
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un tireur d’élite
sniper
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imbriquer
to overlap | interlock
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le ciblage
targeting
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la garderie
``` day care (for children) after school care ```

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