personality and behaviour Flashcards by Valérie Rbr Lebeau

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le tempérament et la personnalité

A

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

tough

la solidité, l'inflexibilité

toughness

une impulsion, un élan

an impulse

impulsif

impulsive

apathique

apathetic

ll'apathie

apathy

agité

agitated

susceptible

huffy, touchy

la susceptibilité

touchiness

un caractère emporté

a quick temper

un caractère doux

an even temper

un caractère épouvantable

a nasty temper

rester calme / perdre son calme

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

un accès de colère

a fit of temper

colérique

short-tempered

soupe-au-lait, emporté

hot-tempered

revêche

sour-tempered

une humeur exubérante, extravagante

an ebullient/extravagant mood

bienveillante

benign

détendue

mellow

enjouée

buyoant, cheerful

joviale

jovial

euphorique

euphoric

sombre

depressed, gloomy, sombre

massacrante

black, foul

maussade

sullen

une humeur passagère

a passing mood

fiable

dependable, reliable

sur le quel on ne peut pas compter

unreliable

stable

stable, steady

changeant, instable

unstable, unsteady, changeable

capricieux

capricious, wayward

fantasque

fanciful

indiscipliné

undisciplined

droit

upright

caustique

abrasive

agressif

aggressive

dominateur

overbearing

qui s'affirme

assertive

fuyant

elusive

original

unusual, eccentric

chaleureux

outgoing

extraverti / introverti

extrovert / introvert

insipide

insipid

équilibré

balanced

déséquilibré

unbalanced, unhinged

pétillant

bubbly

vif

vivacious

former le caractère de qqn

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

refléter la caractère de qqn

to reflect sb's character

une excentricité

a quirk of character