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Fireworks

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Le feux d’artifice

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The rest of the money

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Le reste de l’argent

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It’s hardly surprising

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C’est pas étonnant

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To pamper

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Chouchouter

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It’s better

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Il vaut mieux

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Yeah

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Ouais

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Worn out with something

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Être sur les genoux avec (quelqu’un ou quelque chose)

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Make the most of, benefit from

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Profiter

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On the other hand

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Par contre (cf., en revanche, d’un autre côté)

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According to

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D’après, selon

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Verbs taking être

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MRS VANDERTRAMP:
Monter --> monté (went up)
Retourner --> retourné (returned)
Sortir --> sorti (went out)
Venir --> venu (came)
Arriver --> arrivé (arrived)
Naître --> né (was born)
Descendre --> descendu (went down)
Entrer --> entré (entered)
Rester --> resté (stayed)
Tomber --> tombé (fell)
Rentrer --> rentré (went back in)
Aller --> allé (went)
Mourir --> mort (died)
Partir --> parti (left)
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Black ice

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Le verglas

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Tense

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Tendu, stressant

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To annoy, bother

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Embêter

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Otherwise

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Autrement

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Teacher’s pet

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Un chouchou

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Memories

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Les souvenirs

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Memory

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La mémoire

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I don’t want to bother you

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Je ne veux pas vous déranger

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We’ll see

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On verra

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A shadow

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Une ombre

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An accompaniment

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Un accompagnement

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The cough

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La toux

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Actually

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En fait

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Pain

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La douleur

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The bill

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La douloureuse

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To take sb to the cinema

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Emmener qn au cinéma

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A calf

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Un mollet

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To go, pass, get through

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Passer

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To relieve, alleviate

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Soulager

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Worker, labourer

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Ouvrier, ouvrière

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To fail, to miss, to mess up, bungle

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Rater

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Explanation

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Une explication

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That’s a lie!

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C’est un mensonge!

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35
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Unexpected

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Inattendu(e)

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While

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Alors que

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Now, from now on, henceforth

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Désormais

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Now in retirement …

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Désormais à la retraite

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39
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To claim (that something happened)

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Prétendre

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To wonder; to be requested

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Se demander

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41
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Including; whose

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Dont

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Including his brother

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Dont son frère

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Beyond

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Au-delà de

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Worry, concern

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Souci

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No problem, no worries

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Pas de souci

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Beforehand

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Auparavant

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First, initially, to start with

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D’abord

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48
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Fewer

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Moins de

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49
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Unless

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À moins que (+ subjunctive), à moins de (+ infinitive)

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I’ll take it, unless you want it

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Je vais le prendre, à moins que vous le vouliez

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To manage

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Gérer

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To arrange

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Arranger

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Everything is settled

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Tout est arrangé

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Quite the opposite!

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Bien au contraire !

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Approximately

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Approximativement

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Worrying

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Inquiétant

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Fine, thin (adj.)

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Fin, fine

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Salty, Savoury

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Salé(e)

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Have you ordered?

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As-tu déjà commandé ?

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Predictable (story, person)

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Prévisible

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(Bank/postal) transfer

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Le virement (bancaire/postal)

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A saying

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Un dicton

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To spell

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Épeler

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Clothes peg

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Une pince à linge

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Protected

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Protégé

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What else?

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Quoi d’autre? (Cf., quoi de neuf?)

67
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To increase

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Augmenter

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To smell

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Sentir

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To feel

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Se sentir

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A steep hill

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Une colline escarpé

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To meet halfway, to go fifty fifty

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moitié moitié

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To rain cats and dogs

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Tomber des cordes

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Tiny, ridiculously small

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Riquiqui

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Emergency/Fire escape

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Une issue/sortie de secours/d’incendie

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To take advantage of something

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Profiter de qqch

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Besides, by the way

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D’ailleurs

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By taking, through (such actions)

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En prenant

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In order to, so that

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Afin de

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In addition

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En plus, en outre

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I’m (utterly) fed up

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J’en ai (vraiment) marre

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A medical prescription

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Une ordonnance

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Anyway (in any case)

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De toute façon, en tout cas

83
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The costs

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Les frais

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Help, aid

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Le secours

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Help!

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Au secours !

86
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Emergency services

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Les services (mpl) d’urgence

87
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So much, so.

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Tellement

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How do you spell it?

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Comment ça s’écrit?

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Can you spell it for me?

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Pouvez-vous me l’épeler ?

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Unlikely

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Improbable, peu probable

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Just a little, somewhat

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Quelque peu

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Tax

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Une taxe, un impôt

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Noisy

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Bruyant

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How did it happen?

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Comment ça s’est passé?

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To park the car

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Garer la voiture

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Parking

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Le stationnement

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“No parking”

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“défense de stationner”

98
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Parking garage

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Le parking

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From where

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D’où

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Ambulance service

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SAMU (service d’assistance médicale d’urgence)

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Wanker

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Branleur(euse)

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Half

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Une moitié

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To hold

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Tenir

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Come and go, back and forth

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Un va-et-vient

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Real

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Réel(le)

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Anti-racist

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Anti-raciste

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Bicycle gears

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Les vitesses (f) d’un vélo

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A stone

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Une pierre

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Confusing, puzzling, baffling, disconcerting

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Déroutant

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A teaspoon

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Une petite cuillère

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A saucepan

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Une casserole

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A casserole dish

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Une marmite, cocotte

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Comma

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Virgule

114
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French email signatures (from very formal to very affectionate).

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  1. Je vous prie d’agréer - very formal - to bank manager, fonctionnaires, etcétéra
  2. Cordialement, bien cordialement
  3. Amicalement, Amitiés, amitié (The last one here, amitié, used especially when you know someone a little better but still a little distance remains).
  4. Bien à vous/toi
  5. Je t’embrasse (generally not used between men, unless relatives). It generally means ‘Take care’ or ‘With love’, but can also mean ‘Kisses’ for a boyfriend/girlfriend situation (or desire for such).
  6. Affectueusement (fondly, affectionately, dearly, lovingly), avec toute mon affection (with all my affection, seemingly often used in a Christian context), grosses bises (big kisses) - all of these to be used when you feel close to someone, more or less equivalent to ‘love Tim’.
  7. Bisous (very affectionate, normally used between family members)
    If not sure, use ´À bientôt’
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Candle

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La bougie

116
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To remove

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Enlever

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A clock

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Une horloge

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Damage

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Les dégâts

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A complaint

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Une plainte

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A strike

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Une grève

121
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That would have been serious

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Ça aurait été sérieux

122
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Anti-waste

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Antigaspi

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An estate car

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Un break

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Digital

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Numérique

125
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How do you say that in French?

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Comment ça se dit en français?

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I find it hard to believe that

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J’ai du mal à croire que

French (Jacquie) (28 decks)

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