le titanic Flashcards
words from the french wikipedia article about the titanic
naufrager (v.)
to sink, founder
survenir (v.)
to occur, arise
conçu (v. - concevoir)
designed (to design, conceive)
sombrer (v.)
to sink, founder; to decline
heurter (v.)
to hit, collide
couler (v.)
to flow; to sink, founder
émetteur (v.)
to emit
s’ajouter (v. - ajouter)
to be added (to add)
la polémique (n.)
a controversy
entraîner (v.)
to take, carry away; to lead to; to train
gît (v. - gésir)
to lie (somewhere)
marquer (v.)
to mark, label
susciter (v.)
to spark, provoke
le paquebot (n.)
an oceanliner
le naufrage (n.)
a sinking, shipwreck; a disaster
la survenue (n.)
an occurrence, appearance (of something)
la voie d’eau (n.)
a leak, a hole in a hull
(la) avarie (n.)
damage
(la) époque (n.)
a time, era
le drame (n.)
a tragedy
la règle (n.)
a rule, law
le canot de sauvetage (n.)
a lifeboat
(le) émetteur, (la) émettrice (n.)
a transmitter; a source, sender
la règlementation (n.)
rules, regulations
la vigueur (n.)
vigor
le siècle (n.)
a century; the world
la profondeur (n.)
depth
(le/la) ouvrage (n.)
work
le long-métrage (n.)
a feature film
le regain (n.)
a revival, resurgence
faible (adj.)
weak
puissant (adj.)
powerful
financier, financière (adj.)
financial
marqué (adj.)
marked, printed; committed
ailleurs (adv.)
elsewhere
à la suite (adv.)
below, underneath
à la suite (exp.)
one after another, in a row
au large (adv./exp.)
offshore; out at sea, far away
comme (conj.)
like, just as, as well as
appartenir à (exp.)
to belong to somebody/something
concurrencer (v.)
to compete with, be in competition with
associer (v.)
to unite, combine
construire (v.)
to construct
évoquer (v.)
to mention, evoke
(se) dessiner (v.)
to draw, materialize
étancher (v.)
to staunch, bail out; to make waterproof
négliger (v.)
to neglect, ignore
(le) associé, (la) associée (n.)
a partner, associate
le chantier naval (n.)
a shipyard
la compagnie maritime (n.)
a shipping company
le concurrent, la concurrente (n.)
a competitor
la rencontre (n.)
a meeting
(la) étude (n.)
the study of something
la tête (n.)
the head
le défaut (n.)
a fault, flaw
la cloison (n.)
a partition
la fabrication (n.)
production
le refus (n.)
a refusal
le contrat (n.)
a contract, agreement
le lien (n.)
a link, connection
la décennie (n.)
a decade
(le) événement (n.)
an event
le travail (n.)
a job, work
aucun(e) (pron./adj.)
no, none
à la retraite (adj.)
retired
étanche (adj.)
watertight
courant (adj.)
common, standard
fort (adj.)
strong
négligé (adj.)
careless
devant (prep.)
in front of, ahead of
nonobstant (prep.)
despite, regardless of
équipper (v.)
to equip, fit
aménager (v.)
to convert, rearrange
sécher (v.)
to dry
déplacer (v.)
to move, displace
reprend (v.)
to have more of something; to get something back
(se) poursuivre (v.)
to continue; to pursue
naviguer (v.)
to sail, navigate
relever (v.)
to raise, lift up
remplacer (v.)
to replace
errer (v.)
to wander, roam
montrer (v.)
to show, point out
inaugurer (v.)
to unveil, launch
