faux amis - p

Question 1

particulier

Answer 1

as an adjective, it has a range of meanings: particular, specific, characteristic, distinctive, special, peculiar, or private.

As a noun, it refers to a person or individual.

Question 2

un détail, un point, or un renseignement as a noun

Answer 2

a particular

Question 3

pitoyable, navrant.

Answer 3

pathetic

Question 4

pathétique

Answer 4

pathetic, but it’s much more commonly used to mean moving, touching, poignant.

Question 5

un patron

Answer 5

owner, boss, or employer.

Question 6

un habitué.

Answer 6

a regular, a patron, a client

Question 7

pavé

pavé or carrelé.

Answer 7

paved, but it is also a noun - cobblestone or paving stone

Question 8

pays

Answer 8

a certain territory, usually a country, but can on occasion refer to a village.

Question 9

pédant

Answer 9

pretentious, a pretentious person.

Question 10

pointilleux

Answer 10

pedantic

Question 11

pension

Answer 11

a pension, it can refer to a boarding house, boarding school, or room and board in a hotel.

Question 12

la pension, la retraite

Answer 12

a regular payment made during a person’s retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life.
• a regular payment made by the government to people of or above the official retirement age and to some widows and disabled people.
• chiefly historical a regular payment made to a royal favorite or to an artist or scholar to enable them to carry on work that is of public interest or value.

Question 13

permanence

Answer 13

permanence, but extends this meaning to refer to someone on duty, so heures de permanence refers to office hours.

Question 14

une autorisation écrite, un permis, un laissez-passer, or un passavant.

Answer 14

a permit

Question 15

permis

Answer 15

adjective - permitted, as well as a noun - permit, license. Permis de conduire = driver’s license.

Question 16

le personnel.

Answer 16

personelle

Question 17

perverti

Answer 17

past participle of pervertir: to corrupt, deprave, poison (figuratively). It can also have the milder sense of alter or distort.

Question 18

pervers

Answer 18

perverted

Question 19

un pet

Answer 19

thump, bash, dent or fart

Question 20

câliner, chouchouter, caresser.

Answer 20

to pet

Question 21

pétulant

Answer 21

exuberant, vivacious.

Question 22

irritable, irrité.

Answer 22

petulant

Question 23

une expression or locution.

Answer 23

a phrase

Question 24

Physicien

Answer 24

physicist.

Question 25

pie

Answer 25

magpie.

Question 26

une tarte or une tourte.

Answer 26

pie

Question 27

pièce

Answer 27

piece only in the sense of broken pieces. Otherwise, it indicates a room, sheet of paper, coin, or play.

Question 28

un morceau or une tranche.

Answer 28

a part of something

Question 29

pile

Answer 29

pile, it can refer to a battery or pier.

Question 30

une pile, un tas, or un pieu de fondation.

Answer 30

pile

Question 31

pipe

Answer 31

a pipe for smoking as well as, in vulgar slang, fellatio

Question 32

un tuyau or une conduite

Answer 32

a pipe

Question 33

pitance

Answer 33

old-fashioned, formal, and derogatory word for sustenance

Question 34

une somme dérisoire, un maigre revenu, or un salaire de misère.

Answer 34

pitance, | a very small or inadequate amount of money paid to someone as an allowance or wage.

Question 35

placard

Answer 35

an armoire or cupboard. It can also mean a galley proof or, informally, a thick layer.

Question 36

une affiche or une pancarte.

Answer 36

placard

Question 37

place

Answer 37

a plaza, a place (e.g., 2nd place), a seat, or a space.

Question 38

un endoit or un lieu.

Answer 38

place

Question 39

police

Answer 39

law-enforcing body, it can also mean policy (e.g., insurance) and font.

Question 40

la gendarmerie

Answer 40

under the Ministry of War.

Question 41

un étang

Answer 41

a pond

Question 42

pondre

Answer 42

to lay an egg

Question 43

porch

Answer 43

porch or entrance

Question 44

un porche, un véranda, une marquise.

Answer 44

porch/deck

Question 45

verser or pleuvoir à verse.

Answer 45

to pour

Question 46

précaire

Answer 46

precarious, but only figuratively, as when talking about a relationship, a situation, or someone's health.

Question 47

préjudice

Answer 47

loss, harm, or damage.

Question 48

to préjugé(s) or prévention(s).

Answer 48

prejudice

Question 49

préservatif

Answer 49

a condom

Question 50

un agent de conservation or un conservateur.

Answer 50

preservatives

Question 51

prétendant

Answer 51

candidate

Question 52

to pretend

Answer 52

faire semblant, simuler Elle simule / feint d'être malade.

Question 53

prétendre

Answer 53

to claim or assert: Il prétend savoir jouer du piano - He claims to be able to play the piano. Prétendu - alleged or supposed.

Question 54

prime

Answer 54

free gift, bonus, premium, or subsidy.

Question 55

la fleur, l'apogée, or les plus beaux jours.

Answer 55

noun of prime: 1 [in sing. ] a state or time of greatest strength, vigor, or success in a person's life : you're in the prime of life | he wasn't elderly, but clearly past his prime.

Question 56

procés

Answer 56

legal proceedings, a lawsuit, or a trial.

Question 57

un processus or une procédure.

Answer 57

process

Question 58

proposer

Answer 58

suggest, put forward, nominate, offer.

Question 59

propre

Answer 59

clean or own (as in ma propre voiture - my own car).

Question 60

convenable or adéquat.

Answer 60

proper

Question 61

propreté

Answer 61

eanliness, neatness, tidiness.

Question 62

propriété (note the I in the middle) or biens

Answer 62

property

Question 63

tailler, élaguer.

Answer 63

to prune

Question 64

publicité

Answer 64

to publicity, une publicité can mean advertising in general, as well as as a commercial or advertisement.

Question 65

un puce

Answer 65

a flea or a computer chip, as well as the color puce.