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The Human Being - Adulthood, old age Flashcards

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1
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Manhood

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La virilité

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Womanhood

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La féminité

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3
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Ageing

Aged

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Vieillissant

Âgé

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To get old / to grow old / to age

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vieillir

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old age

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la vieillesse

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the old
old people
the elderly

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les vieux
les gens âgés
le troisième âge

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A pensioner / an old-age pensioner

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un retraité

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To turn grey / white

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devenir gris / blanchir

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9
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decrepit

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décati

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to dodder

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marcher avec difficulté

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crippled

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invalide

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impotent

impotence

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impuissant

l’impuissance

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senile

senility

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sénile

la sénilité

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to dote
doting
dotage

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radoter
gâteux
le gâtisme

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to go / be gaga

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devenir / être gaga

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a line / a wrinkle

wrinkled

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une ride

ridé

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a hearing aid

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un appareil auditif

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un dentier

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a denture

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une durée de vie

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a life span

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autonome / encore vert

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autonomous / still green

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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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sans vie

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lifeless

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mortel

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fatal / lethal

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un cadavre

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a corpse

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la dépouille mortelle

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the remains

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le deuil

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bereavement / mourning

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la famille du défunt

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the bereaved

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porter le deuil

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to mourn

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l’entourage du défunt

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the mourners

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incinérer

l’incinération

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to cremate

cremation

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les pompes funèbres

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the undertaker’s (shop)

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enterrer / inhumer

un enterrement / une inhumation

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to bury

a burial

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un cimetière

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a graveyard / a cemetary

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une tombe

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a grave

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la veuve

le veuf

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the widow

the widower

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un orphelinat

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an orphanage

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un héritier

une héritière

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a heir

a heiress

38
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hériter de qqch

un héirtage

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to inherit sth

an inheritance

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déshériter qqn

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to disinherit sby

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léguer qqch à qqn

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to leave sby sth

41
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un legs

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a legacy

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la succession

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the estate

43
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la crise de la quarantaine

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mid-life crisis

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dans la force de l’âge

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in the prime of life / in one’s prime

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bien conservé

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well-preserved

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atteindre la quarantaine

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to be pushing forty

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ne pas avoir encore quarante ans

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to be on the right side of 40

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avoir dépassé les 40 ans

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to be on the wrong side of 40

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un quadragénaire

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a forty-something

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prendre de l’âge

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to be getting on his years

51
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ne plus être tout jeune

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to be past one’s prime

52
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une maison de retraite

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an old people’s home

53
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sur ses vieux jours

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in his / her old age

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un vieux de la vieille

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an old-timer

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les plus de 70 ans

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the over-70s

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un front qui se dégarnit

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a receding hairline

57
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la perte de mémoire

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memory loss

58
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être à l’article de la mort

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to be at death’s door

59
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rendre son dernier soupir

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to breathe one’s last

60
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mourir prématurément

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to die an untimely death

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être en deuil

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to be in mourning

62
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présenter ses condoléances

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to offer one’ sympathy

63
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le regretté Jim Morrison

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the late Jim Morrison

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perdre son conjoint

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to be widowed

65
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il a passé l’âge pour ça

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he’s past the age for that

66
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avoir le même âge que

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to be the same age as (not than)

67
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les morts
les vieux
les personnes âgées

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the dead
the old
the elderly

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