faux amis - p Flashcards
particulier
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.
un détail, un point, or un renseignement as a noun
a particular
pitoyable, navrant.
pathetic
pathétique
pathetic, but it’s much more commonly used to mean moving, touching, poignant.
un patron
owner, boss, or employer.
un habitué.
a regular, a patron, a client
pavé
pavé or carrelé.
paved, but it is also a noun - cobblestone or paving stone
pays
a certain territory, usually a country, but can on occasion refer to a village.
pédant
pretentious, a pretentious person.
pointilleux
pedantic
pension
a pension, it can refer to a boarding house, boarding school, or room and board in a hotel.
la pension, la retraite
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.
permanence
permanence, but extends this meaning to refer to someone on duty, so heures de permanence refers to office hours.
une autorisation écrite, un permis, un laissez-passer, or un passavant.
a permit
permis
adjective - permitted, as well as a noun - permit, license. Permis de conduire = driver’s license.
le personnel.
personelle
perverti
past participle of pervertir: to corrupt, deprave, poison (figuratively). It can also have the milder sense of alter or distort.
pervers
perverted
un pet
thump, bash, dent or fart
câliner, chouchouter, caresser.
to pet
pétulant
exuberant, vivacious.
irritable, irrité.
petulant
une expression or locution.
a phrase
Physicien
physicist.
pie
magpie.
une tarte or une tourte.
pie
pièce
piece only in the sense of broken pieces. Otherwise, it indicates a room, sheet of paper, coin, or play.
un morceau or une tranche.
a part of something
pile
pile, it can refer to a battery or pier.
une pile, un tas, or un pieu de fondation.
pile
pipe
a pipe for smoking as well as, in vulgar slang, fellatio
un tuyau or une conduite
a pipe
pitance
old-fashioned, formal, and derogatory word for sustenance
une somme dérisoire, un maigre revenu, or un salaire de misère.
pitance,
a very small or inadequate amount of money paid to someone as an allowance or wage.
placard
an armoire or cupboard. It can also mean a galley proof or, informally, a thick layer.
une affiche or une pancarte.
placard
place
a plaza, a place (e.g., 2nd place), a seat, or a space.
un endoit or un lieu.
place
police
law-enforcing body, it can also mean policy (e.g., insurance) and font.
la gendarmerie
under the Ministry of War.
un étang
a pond
pondre
to lay an egg
porch
porch or entrance
un porche, un véranda, une marquise.
porch/deck
verser or pleuvoir à verse.
to pour
précaire
precarious, but only figuratively, as when talking about a relationship, a situation, or someone’s health.
préjudice
loss, harm, or damage.
to préjugé(s) or prévention(s).
prejudice
préservatif
a condom
un agent de conservation or un conservateur.
preservatives
prétendant
candidate
to pretend
faire semblant, simuler
Elle simule / feint d’être malade.
prétendre
to claim or assert: Il prétend savoir jouer du piano - He claims to be able to play the piano. Prétendu - alleged or supposed.
prime
free gift, bonus, premium, or subsidy.
la fleur, l’apogée, or les plus beaux jours.
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.
procés
legal proceedings, a lawsuit, or a trial.
un processus or une procédure.
process
proposer
suggest, put forward, nominate, offer.
propre
clean or own (as in ma propre voiture - my own car).
convenable or adéquat.
proper
propreté
eanliness, neatness, tidiness.
propriété (note the I in the middle) or biens
property
tailler, élaguer.
to prune
publicité
to publicity, une publicité can mean advertising in general, as well as as a commercial or advertisement.
un puce
a flea or a computer chip, as well as the color puce.
