LFBP January 2015 VIII

Question 1

to heckle/pressure

the markets were pressured

Answer 1

chahuter

les marchés ont été chahutés

Question 2

on the brink

Answer 2

au bord du gouffre

Question 3

grade school

Answer 3

école primaire

Question 4

two meanings faillir

Answer 4

1) to fail (faillir à: EU avait failli à ses promesses: NOUN)
2) to almost (faillir): elle a failli tomber)–usually PC since i almost did something….

Question 5

to juggle

Answer 5

jongler

Question 6

leave a bad taste

Answer 6

Laisser un goût amer

Question 7

to demonstrate

Answer 7

démontrer

Question 8

file for bankruptcy

Answer 8

déposer le bilan

Question 9

bribe

Answer 9

l’argent sale

Question 10

after

she left right after you called

Answer 10

après que (sub)

elle est sortie juste après que tu aies téléphoné

Question 11

a guarantee (like against a loan) (like mortgage)
(2)

Answer 11

un hypothèque

un crédit immobilier

Question 12

a debt (une dette)

Answer 12

une créance

Question 13

to fail an exam

Answer 13

échouer À un examen

Question 14

to reach the summit

Answer 14

parvenir AU sommet

Question 15

survive an accident

Answer 15

survivre à un accident

Question 16

to enter the house

Answer 16

entrer DANS la maison

Question 17

to climb a mountain

Answer 17

grimper SUR un montange

Question 18

she hopes to inherit a fortune

Answer 18

elle espère hériter d’une fortune (NOT hériter une fortune)

Question 19

tricky remember distransitive verbs à can mean to or from…sadly gotta memorize

Answer 19

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Question 20

force the rebels into obedience

Answer 20

contraindre les rebelles à l’obésisance

Question 21

to buy a truck from a garage owner

Answer 21

acheter un camion à un garagiste

Question 22

borrow 5 bucks from a friend

Answer 22

emprunter cinq euros à un ami

Question 23

to remove a splinter from somone

Answer 23

ôte une écharde à quelqu’un

Question 24

to steal a ring from his cousin

Answer 24

voler une bague à sa cousine

Question 25

sometimes DE can mean with/in in addition to de

Answer 25

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Question 26

to arm one’s soldiers with machine guns

Answer 26

armer ses soldats de miltrailleuses

Question 27

to surround the family with good friends

Answer 27

entourer la famille de bons amis

Question 28

to wrap a present with tissue paper

Answer 28

envelopper le cadeau d’un papier de soie

Question 29

double object constructions with NO prepositions are IMPOSSIBLE

can’t say: passer son voisin le sel
must say: passer le sel à son voisin

Answer 29

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Question 30

intended for

Answer 30

destiner a

Question 31

travesty

Answer 31

un simulacre

Question 32

Remember pronominal verbs can be DO or IO!

Answer 32

je me lave les mains (the hands are washed by me; elle s’est casse les dents)
je me leve (I wake myself)—DO

Question 33

to abstain

Answer 33

s’absentir (not really reflexive)

Question 34

pronominal verbs used reciprocally can be DO or IO

Answer 34

ils se rencontrent a Paris (DO)

ils s’ecrivent

Question 35

each other

Answer 35

l’un a l’aure (conjugated)

Question 36

Remember you can use Pronominal verbs as passive like in Spanish

Answer 36

on parle francais ici

Question 37

for the vague pronominals with no real reflexive meaning as well as passive construction, you still conjugate

Answer 37

ils se sont evanouies

les videos se sont vendus

Question 38

body parts reflexive are IO

Answer 38

elle s’est coupe le doigt

Question 39

Impersonal verbs are fixed:
il s’agit de….
il fait
il faut

Answer 39

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Question 40

to turn out to be

Answer 40

s’averer etre

Question 41

to make pierre work

Answer 41

faire travailer pierre

Question 42

to let pierre work

Answer 42

laisser pierre travailler

Question 43

to begin to

Answer 43

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