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Life and Death (la vie et la mort : chap 6) Flashcards

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La vie et la mort

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Life and death

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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 origin

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l’évolution

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evolution

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survivre à quelque chose

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to survive something

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un(e) survivant(e)

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a survivor

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la selection 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 quelque chose

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to subsist on something

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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

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mankind

humanity

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la race humaine

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the human race

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mâle

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male

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femelle

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female

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la naissance

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birth

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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 père

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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)

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sterile

infertile

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la stérilité

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sterility

infertility

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stérile (homme)

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sterile

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la stérilité

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sterility

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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 be expecting a baby

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en congé de 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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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

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a gynecologist, (br) a gynaecologist

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des contractions

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contractions

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être en travail

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to be in labour

us : to be in labor

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accoucher d’une fille

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to give birth to a girl

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accoucher quelqu’un

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to deliver somebody’s baby

to deliver somebody

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un accouchement

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a delivery

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naître

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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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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

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twins, twin boys

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des jumelles

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twins, twin girls

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des triplets

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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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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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un(e) prématuré(e)

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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)esarean birth

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mort-né

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stillborn

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un enfant mort-né

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a stillbirth

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la mort subite du nourrisson

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SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

(br) cot death
(us) crib death

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le contrôle des naissances

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Birth control

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le planning familial

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family planning

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la 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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la manipulation génétique

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genetic engineering

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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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la croissance

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growing up

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l’enfance

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childhood

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la petite enfance

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infancy

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un(e) 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 (croître)

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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(e) gosse

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a kid

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un bambin

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a toddler

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l’adoslescence

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adolescence

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adolescent

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teenage

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adoslescent (soutenu)

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adolescent

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un(e) adolescent(e)

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a teenager

an adolescent

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être adoslescent

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to be in one’s teens

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les jeunes

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young people

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juvénile

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juvenile

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un(e) jeune

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a youngster

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un(e) mineur(e)

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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 majeur

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to be of age

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devenir majeur

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to come of age

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atteindre la puberté

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to reach puberty

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quand je serai grand…

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when I’m grown up

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la jeunesse

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youth

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un jeune homme

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a youth

a young man

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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 de génération

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the generation gap

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la maturité

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maturing

maturity

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un(e) adulte

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an adult

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les grandes personnes

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the grown-ups

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l’âge adulte

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adulthood

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l’âge adulte (homme)

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manhood

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l’âge adulte (femme)

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womanhood

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mûr

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mature

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l’âge mûr

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middle age

maturity

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d’un certain âge

d’âge mûr

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middle-aged

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mûrir

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to mature

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un(e) quadragénaire

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a 40-year-old

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un professeur âgé de 40 ans

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a 40-year-old teacher

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un(e) quinquagénaire

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a 50-year-old

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dans la force de l’âge

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in the prime of life

in one’s prime life

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être bien conservé

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to be well-preserved

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faire jeune pour son âge

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to look young for one’s age

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Quel âge as-tu ?

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how old are you?

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en quelle année êtes-vous né ?

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what year were you born in?

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à ton âge, je…

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at your age, I …

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à cet âge-là, je …

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when I was that age, I …

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il a six ans

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he’s six (years olds)

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un enfant de 10 ans

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a ten-year-old

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un enfant de seize ans

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a sixteen-year-old

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avoir le même âge que quelqu’un

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to be as old as somebody

to be the same age as somebody

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être plus jeune que quelqu’un

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to be younger than somebody

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être plus vieux que quelqu’un de 3 ans

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to be 3 years older than somebody

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être plus jeune de quelqu’un de 3 ans

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to be 3 years younger than somebody

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être plus âgé de 3 ans de plus que quelqu’un

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to be 3 years older than somebody

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les personnes âgées

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the old
old people
elderly
the elderly

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un viel 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

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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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le vieillissement

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ageing

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vieillissant

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ageing

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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)

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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 âge 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 que moi (de deux ans)

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he’s my junior (by two years)

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il est plus vieux que moi (de deux ans)

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he’s my senior (by two years)

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un(e) retraité(e)

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a pensioner

an old-age pensioner

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les personnes âgées du troisième âge

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senior citizens

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une maison de retraite

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an old people’s home

an old folks’ home

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un(e) septuagénaire

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a septuagenarian

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un(e) octogénaire

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an octogenarian

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un(e) centenaire

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a centenarian

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sénile

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senile

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la sénélité

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senility

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perdre la tête

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to be loosing one’s faculties

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vieux et malade

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elderly and infirm

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retomber en enfance

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to lapse into second childhood

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décati (parlé)

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decrepit

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gâteux

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doddering

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être gaga (parlé)

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to be gaga

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devenir gaga (parlé)

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to go gaga

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radoter

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to ramble on

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mort

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dead

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les morts

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the dead

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un mort

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a dead man

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une morte

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a dead woman

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défunt (soutenu)

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deceased

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le (la) défunt(e)

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the deceased

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un cadavre

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a corpse

a cadaver US

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mourir de quelque chose

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to die from something

to die of something

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mourir de sa belle mort

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to die a natural death

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mourant

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dying

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être près de la mort

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to be slipping away

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à l’article de la mort

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at death’s door

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être à l’agonie

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to be near death

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s’éteindre

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to pass on

to pass away

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rendre le dernir soupir (soutenu)

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to breathe one’s last

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expirer (soutenu)

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to expire

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sans vie

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lifeless

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raide mort (parlé)

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stone-dead

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la dépouille mortelle

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the remains

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tuer

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to kill

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mortel (blessure)

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fatal

lethal

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mortel (chute)

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fatal

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suicide

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a suicide

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se suicider

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to commit suicide

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mettre fin à ses jours

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to take one’s own life

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perdre quelqu’un

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to lose somebody

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les disparus

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the departed

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la perte d’un père

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the loss of a father

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feu M. Jones

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the late Mr Jones

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le taux de mortalité

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the death rate

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un certificat de décès

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a death certificate

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faire la toilette d’un mort

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to lay out a body

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être exposé solennellement

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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)

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a morgue

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l’enterrement (obsèques)

A

funeral

215
Q

l’enterrement (mise en terre)

A

the burial

216
Q

enterrer

A

to bury

217
Q

inhumer (soutenu)

A

to inter

218
Q

un crématorium

A

a crematorium

a crematory US

219
Q

incinérer

A

to cremate

220
Q

l’incénération

A

cremation

221
Q

un corbillard

A

a hearse

222
Q

le cortège funèbre

A

the funeral procession

223
Q

un cercueil

A

a coffin

a casket US

224
Q

une couronne mortuaire

A

the wreath

225
Q

un linceul

A

a shroud

226
Q

un entrepreneur des pompes funèbres

A

an undertaker
a funeral director
a mortician US

227
Q

un funérarium

A

a funeral home

228
Q

une tombe

A

a grave

229
Q

une pierre tombale

A

a tombstone

a gravestone

230
Q

un cimetierre (église)

A

a churchyard

231
Q

un monument à la mémoire de quelqu’un

A

a memorial to somebody

232
Q

un caveau

A

vault

233
Q

un cimetière

A

a cemetery

a graveyard

234
Q

le monument aux morts

A

the War Memorial

235
Q

une sépulture

A

a burial place

236
Q

les cendres

A

ashes

237
Q

une urne funéraire

A

an urn

238
Q

ci-gît Robert Adam

A

here lies Robert Adam

239
Q

“qu’il repose en paix”

A

‘rest in peace’ (RIP)

240
Q

une notice nécrologique

A

an obituary

241
Q

une épitaphe

A

an epitaph

242
Q

exhumer

A

to exhume

243
Q

le deuil (événement)

A

the bereavement

244
Q

la famille du défunt

A

the bereaved

245
Q

pleurer quelqu’un

A

to grieve for somebody

to mourn somebody

246
Q

porter le deuil de quelqu’un

A

to be in mourning for somebody

247
Q

les parents et amis du défunt

A

the mourners

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