personality and behaviour Flashcards

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le tempérament et la personnalité

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temperament and personality

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changeant, capricieux

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temperamental, capricious

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un caractère, une humeur

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temper

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qui a bon/mauvais caractère

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good/bad-tempered, good-humoured

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une humeur

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a mood

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lunatique

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moody

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de façon lunatique

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moodily

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l’instabilité d’humeur

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moodiness

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le caractère, la force de caractère

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character

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maniéré

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mannered

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une particularité

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mannerism (-ism se prononce izeum dans tous les mots)

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un trait de caractère

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a trait (prononcé ei)

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un défaut, un travers

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a fault, a failing, a shortcoming

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inné

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innate

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individualiste

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individualistic

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une particularité, idiosyncrasie

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an idiosyncrasy

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un marginal

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a freak

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bizarre

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freakish

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un caprice, une lubie

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a whim

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fantasque

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whimsical

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faible

la faiblesse

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weak

weakness

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fort

la force

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strong

strength

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mou, veule

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spineless

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la mollesse, la veulerie

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spinelessness

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solide, dure

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tough

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la solidité, l’inflexibilité

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toughness

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une impulsion, un élan

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an impulse

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impulsif

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impulsive

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apathique

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apathetic

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ll’apathie

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apathy

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agité

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agitated

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susceptible

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huffy, touchy

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la susceptibilité

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touchiness

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un caractère emporté

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a quick temper

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un caractère doux

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an even temper

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un caractère épouvantable

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a nasty temper

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rester calme / perdre son calme

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to keep/ to lose one’s temper (kept, kept) (lost, lost)

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un accès de colère

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a fit of temper

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colérique

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short-tempered

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soupe-au-lait, emporté

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hot-tempered

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revêche

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sour-tempered

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une humeur exubérante, extravagante

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an ebullient/extravagant mood

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bienveillante

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benign

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détendue

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mellow

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enjouée

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buyoant, cheerful

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joviale

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jovial

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euphorique

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euphoric

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sombre

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depressed, gloomy, sombre

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massacrante

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black, foul

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maussade

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sullen

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une humeur passagère

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a passing mood

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fiable

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dependable, reliable

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sur le quel on ne peut pas compter

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unreliable

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stable

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stable, steady

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changeant, instable

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unstable, unsteady, changeable

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capricieux

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capricious, wayward

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fantasque

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fanciful

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indiscipliné

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undisciplined

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droit

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upright

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caustique

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abrasive

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agressif

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aggressive

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dominateur

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overbearing

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qui s’affirme

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assertive

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fuyant

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elusive

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original

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unusual, eccentric

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chaleureux

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outgoing

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extraverti / introverti

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extrovert / introvert

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insipide

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insipid

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équilibré

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balanced

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déséquilibré

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unbalanced, unhinged

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pétillant

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bubbly

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vif

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vivacious

73
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former le caractère de qqn

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to build, to form, to mo(u)ld, to shape sb’s character

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refléter la caractère de qqn

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to reflect sb’s character

75
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une excentricité

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a quirk of character