Life and Death Flashcards

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1
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La vie

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Life

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vivre

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to live

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exister

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to exist

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être vivant, être en vie

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to be alive

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les êtres vivants

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living things

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l’existence

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existence

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la destinée

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destiny

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le sort, le destin

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fate

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un être

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a being

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animé

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animate

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inanimé

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inanimate

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une créature

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a creature

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créer

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to create

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la création

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creation

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mortel

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mortal

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immortel

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immortal

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l’immortalité

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immortality

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le néant

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nothingness

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l’origine

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the origine

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l’évolution

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evolution

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survivre à qqch

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to survive sth

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la survie

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survival

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un survivant

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a survivor

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la sélection naturelle

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the survival of the fittest

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subsister

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to subsist

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vivre de qqch

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to subsist on sth

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la subsistance

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subsistence

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l’homme

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man

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l’humanité (2)

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mankind

humanity

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la race humaine

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the human race

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male

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male

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femelle

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female

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concevoir

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to conceive

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la conception

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conception

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se reproduire

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to reproduce

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la reproduction

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reproduction

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la mère

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the mother

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le pere

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the father

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l’enfant

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the child

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fertile, fécond

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fertile

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la fertilité

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fertility

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stérile (femme) (2)

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sterile

infertile

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la stérilité (femme) (2)

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sterility

infertility

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stérile (homme)

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sterile

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la stérilité (homme)

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sterility

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46
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une grossesse

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a pregnancy

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enceinte

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pregnant

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une femme enceinte

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an expectant mother

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une future maman

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a mother to be

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attendre un bébé

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to expecting a baby

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en congé maternité

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on maternity leave

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la naissance (à l’accouchement)

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childbirth

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53
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une maternité

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a maternity hospital

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une sage femme

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a midwife

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un gynécologue (2)

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a gynecologist

a gynaecologist

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la gynécologie (2)

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gynecology

gynaecology

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57
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des contractions

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contraction

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58
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être en travail (2)

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to be in labor

to be in labour

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accoucher d’un fille

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to give birth to a girl

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accoucher qqn (2)

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to deliver sb’s baby

to deliver sb

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un accouchement

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a delivery

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naitre

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to be born

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Je suis né à Paris

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i was born in Paris

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à la naissance

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at birth

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65
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un nouveau né

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a newborn baby

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un nourrisson

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an infant

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des jumeaux (2)

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twins

twin boys

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des jumelles (2)

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twins

twin girls

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des triplés

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triplets

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Un avortement

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an abortion

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se faire avorter

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to have an abortion

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72
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une fausse couche

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a miscarriage

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faire une fausse couche

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to miscarry

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74
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un prématuré

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a premature baby

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une couveuse

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an incubator

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une césarienne

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a c(a)cesarean birth

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mort-né

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stillborn

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78
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un enfant mort-né

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a stillbirth

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la mort subite du nourrisson (3)

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SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)
cot death
crib death

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Le contrôle des naissances

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birth control

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81
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le planning familiale

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family planning

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82
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le taux de natalité

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the birth rate

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génétique

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genetic

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la génétique

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genetics

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85
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la manipulation génétique

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genetic engineering

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86
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l’insémination artificielle

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artificial insemination

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la mère porteuse

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the biological mother

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un bébé éprouvette

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a test-tube baby

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l’enfance

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chilhood

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la petite enfance

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infancy

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un enfant

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a child

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un garçon

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a boy

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une fille

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a girl

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grandir (croitre)

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to grow

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grandir (devenir adulte)

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to grow up

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il est en pleine croissance

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he’s growing fast

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se développer

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to develop

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un gosse

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a kid

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un bambin

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a toddler

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l’adolescence

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adolescence

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adolescent (2)

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teenage

adolescent

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un adolescent

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a teenager

an adolescent

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être adolescent

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to be in one’s teens

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les jeunes

A

young people

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juvénile

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juvenile

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un jeune

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a youngster

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un mineur

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a minor

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être mineur

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to be under age

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être/devenir majeur

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to be/to come of age

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atteindre la puberté

A

to reach puberty

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quand je serai grand…

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when i’m grown up

112
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la jeunesse

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youth

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un jeune homme (2)

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a young man

a youth

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une jeune femme

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a young woman

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la jeune génération

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the younger generation

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le conflit des générations

A

the generation gap

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un adulte

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an adult

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les grandes personnes

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the grown-ups

119
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l’age adulte

A

adulthood

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l’age adulte (homme)

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manhood

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l’age adulte (femme)

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womanhood

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mûr

A

mature

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l’age mur (2)

A

middle age

maturity

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d’un certain age, d’age mûr

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middle-aged

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la maturité

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maturity

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mûrir

A

to mature

127
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un quadragénaire

A

a 40-year-old

128
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un professeur âgé de 40 ans

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a 40-year old teacher

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un quinquagénaire

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a 50 year old

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dans le force de l’âge (2)

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in the prime of life

in one’s prime

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être bien conservé

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to be well-preserved

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faire jeune pour son age

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to look young for one’s age

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quel age as tu ?

A

how old are you ?

134
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en quelle année êtes vous né ?

A

what year were you born in ?

135
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à ton age, je …

A

at your age, I …

136
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à cet age-la, je

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when i was that age, I…

137
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il a six ans

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he’s six (year old)

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un enfant de dix/seize ans

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a ten/sixteen-year-old

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avoir le même age que qqn (2)

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to be as old as sb

to be the same age as sb

140
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être plus jeune/vieux que qqn

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to be younger/older than sb

141
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être plus jeune/agé que qqn de 3 ans

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to be 3 years younger/older than sb

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les personnes âgées (2)

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the old

old people

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un vieil homme

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an old man

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une vieille femme

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an old woman

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une vieille dame

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an old lady

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vieillir (3)

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to grow old
to get old
to age

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la vieillesse

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(old) age

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la vieillissement

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ageing

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vieillissement

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ageing

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les personnes âgées

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the elderly

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très âgé

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aged

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ne plus se faire tout jeune

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to be getting on (in years)

153
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sentir qu’on se fait vieux

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to be feeling one’s age

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vivre jusqu’à un age avancé

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to live to a ripe old age

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sur la fin de sa vie

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towards the end of his life

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il est plus jeune/plus âgé que moi (de 2ans)

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he’s my junior/senior (by 2years)

157
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un retraité (2)

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a pensioner

an old-age pensioner

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les personnes du troisième age

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senior citizens

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une maison de retraite (2)

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an old people’s home

an old folks’ home

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un septuagénaire

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a septuagenarian

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un octogénaire

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an octogenarian

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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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sénile

A

senile

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la sénilité

A

senility

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perdre la tête

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to be losing one’s faculties

166
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vieux et malade

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elderly and infirm

167
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retomber en enfance

A

to lapse into second childhood

168
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décati

A

decrepit

169
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gâteux

A

doddering

170
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être/devenir gaga

A

to be/to go gaga

171
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radoter

A

to ramble

172
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mort

A

dead

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les morts

A

the dead

174
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un mort

A

a dead man

175
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une morte

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a dead woman

176
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défunt

A

deceased

177
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le/la défunte

A

the deceased

178
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un cadavre (2)

A

a corpse

a cadaver

179
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mourir de qqch

A

to die from sth, of sth

180
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mourir de sa belle mort

A

to die a natural death

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mourant

A

dying

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être prêt de la fin

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to be slipping away

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à l’article de la mort

A

at death’s door

184
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être à l’agonie

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to be near death

185
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s’éteindre (2)

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to pass on

to pass away

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rendre le dernier soupir

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to breathe one’s last

187
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expirer

A

to expire

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sans vie

A

lifeless

189
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raide mort

A

stone dead

190
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la dépouille mortelle

A

the remains

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tuer

A

to kill

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mortel (blessure) (2)

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fatal

lethal

193
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mortel (chute)

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fatal

194
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un suicide

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a suicide

195
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se suicider

A

to commit suicide

196
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mettre fin à ses jours

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to take one’s own life

197
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perdre qqn

A

to lose sb

198
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les disparus

A

the departed

199
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la perte d’un père

A

the loss of a father

200
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Feu M.Jones

A

the late MR Jones

201
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le taux de mortalité

A

the death rate

202
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Un certificat de décès

A

a death certificate

203
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faire la toilette d’un mort

A

to lay out a body

204
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être exposé solennellement

A

to lie in state

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une morgue (à l’hôpital)

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a mortuary

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une morgue (à la police)

A

a morgue

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l’enterrement (obsèques)

A

the funeral

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l’enterrement (mise en terre)

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the burial

209
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enterrer

A

to burry

210
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inhumer

A

to inter

211
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un crématorium (2)

A

a crematorium

a crematory

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incinérer

A

to cremate

213
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l’incinération

A

cremation

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un corbillard

A

a hearse

215
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le cortège funèbre

A

the funeral procession

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un cercueil (2)

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a coffin

a casket

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une couronne mortuaire

A

a wreath

218
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un linceul

A

a shroud

219
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un entrepreneur des pompes funèbres (3)

A

an undertaker
a funeral director
a mortician

220
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un funérarium

A

a funeral home

221
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une tombe

A

a grave

222
Q

une pierre tombale (2)

A

a tombstone

a gravestone

223
Q

un caveau

A

a vault

224
Q

un cimetière (2)

A

a cemetery

a graveyard

225
Q

un cimetière (église)

A

a churchyard

226
Q

un monument à la mémoire de qqn

A

a memorial to sb

227
Q

le monument aux mort

A

the war memorial

228
Q

une sépulture

A

a burial place

229
Q

les cendres

A

ashes

230
Q

une urne funéraire

A

an urn

231
Q

ci-git Robert Adam

A

here lies R.A

232
Q

“qu’il repose en paix”

A

“Rest in peace”

233
Q

une notice nécrologique

A

an obituary

234
Q

une épitaphe

A

an epitaph

235
Q

exhumer

A

to exhume

236
Q

le deuil

A

the bereavement

237
Q

la famille du défunt

A

the bereaved

238
Q

pleurer qqn (2)

A

to grieve for sb

to mourn sb

239
Q

porter le deuil de qqn

A

to be in mourning for sb

240
Q

les parents et amis du défunt

A

the mourners