LFBP April 2015 XI

Question 1

mid day sun

Answer 1

le soleil écrasant

Question 2

to spring, to gush out

hot water gushes out of geysers in iceland

Answer 2

jaillir (regular ir)

L’eau chaude jaillit des geysers en Islande.

Question 3

eyelid

Answer 3

une paupière

Question 4

eyelash

Answer 4

cil (pronounced full) (nm)

cils

Question 5

the trigger

you pull the trigger and the shot fires

Answer 5

la gâchette

Tu appuies sur la gâchette et le coup part

Question 6

misfortune/hardship

Answer 6

le malheur

Question 7

7.9 on the richter scale…

Answer 7

7,9 sur l’échelle de Richter

Question 8

tremor/aftershock (2)

tremors

Answer 8

une secousse
une réplique
les secousses (nf)

Question 9

innate

Answer 9

inné (in-ay)

Question 10

track (can be literal or figurative)

i envision taking the same track as my dad

Answer 10

la voie

J’envisage de suivre la même voie que mon père

Question 11

excuse me do you have the time?

Answer 11

Excusez-moi, avez-vous l’heure?

Question 12

moolah

a cash box

Answer 12

une boîte à fric

Question 13

to tumble

his blood pressure had tumbled

Answer 13

dégringoler

Sa tension artérielle avait dégringolé.

Question 14

to rise

the number rose in nepal

Answer 14

s’alourdir

Le bilan s’est alourdit au Népal.

Question 15

glimmer of hope

Answer 15

une lueur d’espoir

Question 16

he seems like a nice guy

Answer 16

Il a l’air sympa comme gars

Question 17

supernatural gift

Answer 17

un don surnaturel

Question 18

on the job

Answer 18

sur le tas

Question 19

she taught me so many interesting things

Answer 19

Elle m’a appris tant de choses intéressantes

Question 20

it’s an asset to the company to have a trilingual employee

Answer 20

C’est un atout pour l’entreprise d’avoir un employé trilingue

Question 21

the problem is (beside le problème ce qui..)

Answer 21

L’ennui, c’est qu’il est trop loin

Question 22

main difference adjective vs adverb

Answer 22

adjective modify noun: what

adverb modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs (how, when, where, why)

Question 23

most adverbs with -ment formed by taking feminine form adjective and adding -ment
gently
horribly
kindly (exception)

Answer 23

doucement (douce+ment not doux!)
affreusement: affreuse+ment not affreux)
gentiment (not gentille +ment)

Question 24

if adjective ends in -i, é, ú (NOT -eau,-ou), you get adverb from masculine form
ambiguously
truly

Answer 24

ambigument (ambigu)

vraiment

Question 25

if you have -ant or -ent, usually -amment or -emment
brillantly
prudently

Answer 25

brillant= brillamment 
prudent= prudemment

Question 26

some adverbs come from past participles
blindy
precisely

Answer 26

aveuglément

précisément

Question 27

some adverbs look the same as adjective so no -ment
speak quietly
smell nice

Answer 27

parler bas

sentir bon

Question 28

to keep a low profile

Answer 28

filer doux

Adopter une attitude discrète

Question 29

it’s 10 km from madrid

Answer 29

C’est à 10 kilomètres de Madrid.

Question 30

to uncork/open

are there a lot of openings in this branch?

Answer 30

déboucher

y-t-il beaucoup de débouchées à cette branche?

Question 31

in french just like english most adverb can be made to comparison by adding plus/mois/aussi in front of adverb, and le plus or le moins for superlative

nowadays i remember things more easily

Answer 31

de nos jours je m’en souviens plus facilement

Question 32

adverb: well
better
the best
less well

she sings better

Answer 32

bien
mieux
le mieux
moins mieux

elle chante mieux

Question 33

badly
worse
the worst

Answer 33

mal
plus mal
le plus mal

Question 34

difference mal and mauvais and pire

Answer 34

mauvais: an adjective…modify a noun (une mauvaise chanson)
mal can be adj but only following verb: je me sens mal
il parle mal le français

Question 35

difference between le mal and le mauvais (both nouns)

Answer 35

le mal: difficulty/bad: le mal du pays (homesick)
le mauvais: the devil, les mauvais=the wicked
pire: is just irregular comparison of mauvais
sa voiture est pire (plus mauvais) que la sienne

Question 36

bon vs bien

just think bon/meilleur for nouns
bien/mieux for verbs

Answer 36

bon: adjective, sa voiture est meilleur que la mienne
bien: il parle mieux que mois

Question 37

review: pronouncing PLUS?

Answer 37

1) full plus for positive: je peux mange plus, j’ai plus de 1000 livres
2) pronounce plu for negative, je n’ai plus de livres, moi non plus
3) for comparisons only pronounce with liason and at end:
je cour le plus, j’a plu(s) d’amis qu’elle.

Question 38

more and more

Answer 38

de plus en plus (full pronounce)

Question 39

even more

she’s even more talented that i had thought

Answer 39

encore plus

elle est encore plus intelligente que je n’avais pensé

Question 40

he wants a better (seat)

Answer 40

il désire une meilleure place

Question 41

TRICKY: sometimes bien can be like an adjective for verbs (like être)
all is good

Answer 41

tout est bien ou mieux!

same as tout est bon/meilleur

Question 42

many definitions tout

1) determinant (agrees): every/all/any all taxes included, any occasion
2) quantifier: all (agrees) all boys arrived, all day

Answer 42

1) “every”: toutes taxes compris, à toute heure

2) tous les garçons sont arrivés, toute la journée

Question 43

tout as pronoun: when nonspecific it’s invariable, when specific thing/person it agrees
all things considered
all will be settled
they’re all out of date (songs)

Answer 43

tout bien considéré
tout serait réglé
toutes sont dépassées

Question 44

tout as adverb means completely/very (invariable since adverb BUT agrees is before adjective)
she sings very quietly
the girls were completely taken aback

Answer 44

elle chante tout bas

les filles sont toutes désemparées