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A X-ray

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Une radio

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A step ladder

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Un escabeau

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A drill

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Une perceuse

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An expectation

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Une attente

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A disagreement

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Un désaccord
Je suis en désaccord (i am in disagreement)

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A berry

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Une baie

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Unexpectedly

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À l’improviste
De manière inattendue
De manière imprévue

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Halluciner

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To hallucinate
To daydream
To not believe your eyes eg J’hallucine

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1) Rattraper
2) Se rattraper

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1) To catch again/ catch up/ remedy/ rectify
2) To make amends/ make up for it

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Sing in tune, sing out of tune

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Chanter juste/faux

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Reluctant
Reluctantly

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Réticent
Avec réticence / à contrecœur

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Over time
Bit by bit

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Au fil (or fur) du temps
Au fur et à mesure
Fur is old French word for rate

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It’s raining v heavily

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Il pleut des cordes

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It has set the world on fire

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Il a mis le monde à feu et à sang

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A bog/marsh

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Un marécage
Un marais

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A warehouse

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Un entrepôt

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Maiden name
Name at birth

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Nom de jeune fille
Nom de naissance

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To get fooled

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Se faire avoir

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Diary

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Un journal intime
Un agenda/calendrier

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Relaxed

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Relaxant ( for an object)
Décontracté /détendu for a person

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Yeast

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La levûre
Le levain (starter agent for Eg bread)

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A musical

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Une comédie musicale

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A fishing rod

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Une canne

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Paving stone/slab (stone)

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La dalle
Note crever la dalle means vv hungry (slang expression)
But Avoir une faim de loup is much more commonly used.

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To trigger/start/provoke/cause/spark off
Déclencher
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Lace
La dentelle
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A credit (eg a store credit)
Un avoir
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À la limite
At the very least
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Partly
En partie Partiellement
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To look forward to
Être impatient de Être hâte de (more formal)
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To soak something To be soaked/Dre I
Tremper Être trempé
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Fingers crossed
Croiser les doigts
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To get dumped
Se faire larguer Larguer means to unfasten/release (détacher / défaire)
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A quadriceps A hamstring
Un quadriceps Un muscle ischio-jambier
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Le Culot
The nerve/cheek/audacity
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From now on
Dorénavant
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To tail/track/shadow (like a detective)
Prendre en filature Filature means the shadowing eg I do the shadowing
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Old fashioned
Démodé Ringard - latter perhaps gives an opinion
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A blue tit
Une mésange bleue
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1) Balader 2) Se balader
1) To take around eg he takes the phone around with him - il balade le telephone avec lui Or to take out for a trip Eg Il balade sa famille à la compagne 2) to take a stroll (like se promener)
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To have nothing to do with..
N’avoir rien à voir avec ..
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A raft
Un radeau
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The bark (tree)
L’écorce (f)
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A hostage
Un otage
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A truce / break
Une trêve
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The right/wrong way round
À l’endroit / l’envers
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To sympathise
Compatir (à ou avec)
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Vivement
Can’t wait for / bring on/roll on Also means quickly/swiftly
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1)To stray A stray (cat)
1) S’éloigner (to go away from) Errer (if an animal) 2) vv Errant
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A woodpecker
Un pic
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A shortcut
Un raccourci
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Home lover Home bird
Un(e) casanier iére
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A groin
Une aine
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The hernia
La hernie
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Screwdriver
Un tournevis
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A bypass
Une rocade
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The hard shoulder
La bande d’arrêt d’urgence
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1) Panic 2) To panic
1) La panique ou l’affolement (m) 2) paniquer ou s’affoler
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Dépanner
To mend/repair/fix/help out
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Human interest story/ miscellaneous news story
Le fait divers
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Becoming sparse/rare
Se raréfier Eg mes cheveux se raréfie
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Bullshit
La connerie Not escroquer to con Une Escroquerie a con
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A leash
Une laisse
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À la rigueur
If need be/if needed/ in a pinch Note à l’extrême rigueur means - in the worse case scenario
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Eventually
Finalement
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Possibly/potentially /might
Éventuellement
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Incontournable
Unmissable inescapable unavoidable
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Make up your mind
Il faudrait savoir
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A stretch (generally muscles)
Un étirement
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A baby bottle
Un biberon
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A nappy
Une couche (also a layer)
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An errand
Une course (also a race/a fare-eg taxi/a course)
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A water bottle
Une gourde
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A stapler
Une agrafeuse
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To fill
Combler Remplir - latter can be used in most senses though ?? Not referring to emotions then would use combler??
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Happy/content/fulfilled
Comblé Note combler - to fill Comble can mean the irony (ironie)
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To pay into/ contribute
Cotiser
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The subscription/subscription/contributions
La cotisation
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1) An estimate To estimate
1) Un devis (for a job) une estimation ou une évaluation (calculation) 2) Estimer / evaluer
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Se décider à vs décider de
Former mulls over to decides latter less thought involved
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Rien qu’en …. voyant
Just from ….eg seeing
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A bungalow
Une maison de plain-pied Or un pavillon de plain-pied
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The Siblings
La fratrie
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Too bad
Tant pis
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A container
Un conteneur or un container
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A tuxedo
Un smoking
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To lose
Égarer (same as perdre - a bit more formal)
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The highlight of ..
Le moment/instant le plus marquant
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A ditch
Une fosse
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Half time (sports) Part time
Mi-temps Le premier mi-temps - 1st half
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A power plant
Une centrale
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To ask
Demander - ask for .. something Se poser - ask .. a question
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As it is -eg the house is bought as it is
Tel quel
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A badge
Un badge Un insigne
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A bookcase
Une bibliothèque
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Excessive oversized disproportionate
Démesuré
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To sip
Siroter Boire á petites gorgées
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A security guard/night watchman/ porter
Un(e) vigile
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To hum
Fredonner or Chantonner
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Renter - thé landlord The tenant
Le loueur (se) Le/à locataire

French 2019 (14 decks)

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