Laval1 Flashcards
Welcome, welcoming adj.
de bienvenue
By far ( considerably, easily, much)
She is by far the most talented.
Did you miss your train by much?
De beaucoup
Elle est de beaucoup la plus douée.
As-tu râter ton train de beaucoup?
From top to bottom, from the bottom up
Look somebody up and down
De bas en haut
Regarder qq’un de bas en haut
Willingly, heartily, readily
It’s ( it was) a pleasure.
De bon coeur
C’est de bon coeur
Is that an everyday or common expression
Ça se dit couramment?
He’s pushing sixty.
Il court sur ses 60 ans.
Womanizer
Man eater
Coureur
Coureur de jupons
Coureuse
Diarrhea fam.
La courante
To fabricate
Fabuler
Second hand book/ car
D’occasion
Un livre d’occasion
Weave
Tisser
Liste des gagnants, list of hits
Les palmarès
Absent-minded, air-head
étourdi(e) adj., noun
Distrait(e) adj.
A syringe
Une seringue
Worry,
Don’t worry
S’en faire
Ne vous en faites pas
Idleness
The devil finds work for idle hands
L’oisiveté
L’oisiveté c’est la mére de toutes les vices.
Surroundings, neighbourhood
Les alentours n.pl.
Surroundings, nearby
Alentour adv.
Knack, trick, shrewdness, cunning
Astuce n. f.
To train, erect, draw up
Dresser
To smash open kick down
That breaks the budget.
Défoncer
Ça défonce le budget.
To be bankrupt
être en faillite
As, as well as
as I pointed out
My parents as well as my brothers will be there.
Ainsi que
Ainsi que je l’ai fait rémarqué…
Mes parents ainsi que mes frères seront là.
This or that way, so, thus
Amen, so be it.
Ainsi adv.
Ainsi soit-il.
Absent-minded
Distrait(e)
Font
La police
Rails
Ties
Derailment
Rails n.m.
Les traverses
Déraillment. m.
Masters (degree)
La matrise
To hang out
Retrouver des amis
Inquisitive
Questionneux, -euse Québec, fam.
Life time learner
Apprennant à vie
Stencil (in drawing)
Draw with stencils
Un pochoir
Dessiner au pochoir
Gradually
He’ll get used to it in time.
Au fur et à mesure
Il s’adaptera au fur et à mesure
To harvest, pick
Cueillir
To please each other
To please oneself
Se plaire (á)
To dislike one another
To be unhappy, dissatisfied (être mal á l’aise)
Se déplaire
Sated
Repu(e)(s)
To please somebody
Complaire á qq’un
To revel or delight in qq.ch
To wallow in-
He wallows in his misery.
To take great pleasure in saying/doing sth.
Se complaire dans qq’ch
Il se complait dans son malheur.
Se complaire á dire/faire qq’ch
To make fun of, to make light of
Se rire de
Passion, spirit, ardour
Fougue f.
Spring cleaning
Le grand ménage printanier
To chant
Scander
Motorcyclist
Un motard
To pocket, to rake in
Empocher
To heckle, interrupt, disrupt
Chahuter
To meddle, get involved with
Se mêler
To muddle, tangle up
Embrouiller
To muzzle
Museler
Anybody, anyone
Whoever
Quiconque
To dust
épousseter
Woodwork, paneling
Les boisseries
To tie up
Ficeler
To label
étiqueter
To pant
Haleter
To flow, stream, drip
Ruisseler
Master’s degree
La matrise
Ph.d.
Le doctorat
Inquisitive
Questioneux,- euse Quebec, fam.
Bookworm
Un rat de bibliothèque
Energetic
Energique
To put on Brylcreem, slick one’s hair
Gomminer
To camouflage, hide
Camoufler
Baldness
La calvitie
To whistle
Siffloter
To beseige
Assiéger
To hug
Serrer dans les bras
Excited
enthousiaste, j’ai hâte
I like you
I love you
Je t’aime bien
Je t’aime
To damage, harm
To be harmful to one’s health
Nuire (à)
Nuire à la santé
Décorer
Orner
To convert
Aménager
To favour, give priority to
Privilégier
Knowledge
Le savoir
To finalize, put the finishing touches on
Parachever
To stutter
Stuttering
Stutterer
Bégayer
Bégaiement m.
Bègue f.
Sustainable development
Développement durable
As soon as
Au fur et à mesure que
In the area around
Aux allentours de
To stamp, crash, dab
Tamponner
To crash into, to ram into
Tamponner
To chisel, sculp with a chisel
Ciceler
chisel
Un ciseau (à bois)
To dismantle, uninstall
Démanteler
To demolish
Démolir
To torture
Supplicier
Quarter ( like torture )
écarteler
To be torn between sth and sth
être écartelé entre qq’ch et qq’ch
To harass, badger
Harceler
To pester fam. Harceler
Tanner
To snack, nibble
Grignoter
To pinch i.e. steal sth
Grignoter
To blubber, snivel
Chialer
To hammer, pound
Marteler
To model, fashion, create
Modeler
To pick a lock
Crocheter
To ferret, rummage
Fureter
To pant, to hold your breathe
Haleter
To be appreciated, to be appealing
Plaire (à)
