Thème grammatical 2 Flashcards

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C’est une conférence difficile à suivre. Il a un style de vie différent du mien

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It’s a difficult lecture to follow. He has a different lifestyle from mine

On peut pas avoir it’s a difficult to follow lecture cf adjectif : attention ordre.

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C’est une personne à qui il est plaisant de parler

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He/She is an enjoyable person to talk with/to talk to.
He/She is a person with whom it is pleasant to talk

Dans la deuxième phrase de préposition à la fin. Eviter le “it”

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Elle a 6 ans. C’est une fille de 6 ans. // Ce mur fait 6 pieds de haut ; C’est un mur de 6 pieds de haut

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She is six years old. She is a six-year-old girl It’s a 6 foot tall wall

This wall is six feet high /tall. It’s a six-foot-tall /high wall

Attention adjectif singulier et pluriel
six-year-old girl = C’est avant le nom, en positiond ‘adjectif donc au singulier !! a blue book, to blue books + adjectif compos avec tirets

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Regardez, c’est de la folie pure. C’est à la page 20.

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Look, it is pure madness. It is on page 20.
Look, this is pure / utter madness. It’s∅ page 20 / It’s on ∅ page 20.

On ∅Page 20 pas on the

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Un étudiant bon en maths est sûr d’être accepté

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A good student in maths is sure/ is certain to be accepted
A student good at maths must be / will be accepted

A student who is good in maths is sure to be accepted

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Manchester United contre Chelsea ? La meilleure équipe a perdu

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Manchester against Chelsea. The better team lost

2 comparatif 3 = superlatif
pas best

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La meilleure équipe a gagné la ligue

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The best team won the league
The best team won the premiership / championship

+ de 2 = superlatif

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La baleine est un mammifère (discours scientifique)

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The whale is a mammal
THE = discours scientifique

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Lequel de ces deux livres voulez-vous lire ?

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Which of these two books do you want to read ?

On peut pas dire both ici car avec both les deux sont traités idem alors qu’ici c’est l’un ou l’autre

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Ca, c’est un roman !

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(Now this is a novel)

That’s some novel
SOME qualitatif. (Now est intéréssant aussi)

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“Tu peux me prêter un stylo? – Prends celui qui est sur le bureau”

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Can you lend me a pen ? Take the one that is on the desk

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Ceux qui sont arrivés en retard devront attendre

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Those who came late will have to wait

Those who arrived late will have to wait

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“A qui est ce livre-C’est celui de Peter

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Whose book is this one ? it’s Peter’s
Whose book is that /this ? - It’s Peter’s

Pas de one après apostrophe S

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Je n’ai pratiquement pas d’amis dans cette ville

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I’ve almost no friends in this town
I’ve hardly got any friends in this town

Nearly est bof marche mieux avec almost

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Aucun de ces deux appartement ne me plaît

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I like neither of these two apartments

Neither plutot que NONE car que 2 appartements. Mais si 3 ca aurait été none.

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Elle ne m’a rien demandé. Mais elle ne m’a pas appelé pour rien.

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She asked me (for) nothing / She didn’t ask me for anything , she didn’t call me for nothing.
She didn’t ask me anything. But she didn’t call me for nothing. ✅

She didn’t call me for nothing = called me for something

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Je ne veux rien d’autre que ton bonheur.

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I don’t want anything beside your happiness
I want nothing but your happiness

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Paul n’est pas le seul à avoir été licencié. Plusieurs autres ouvriers l’ont aussi été.

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Paul wasn’t the only worker that was laid off. Many others workers were too

Pas THE other car on en pas parlé avant

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Cela s’est passé quelques jours plus tard. Il n’y avait pas grand monde.

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It happened a couple days later. There were few people

20
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Il en reste quatre

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There are four left

21
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Il y avait peu de personnes intéressantes à la fête. Mais il y avait un peu de sangria..

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There were few interesting people at the party. There was A little sangria

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Il y avait peu de vin… mais j’ai rencontré quelques personnes dignes d’intérêt

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There was little wine but there were a few people worthy of my interest.

Pas a little wine car ici PEU DE et pas un peu de = négatif

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Nous nous sommes très peu vu ces derniers temps

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We haven’t seen much of each other lately / recently

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Ce que je veux, c’est qu’on me fiche la paix

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What I want is to be left alone / left in peace
What I want = ce que je veux

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Tout ce qu’elle veut, c’est un autre bébé

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All that she wants is another baby
Ce qu’elle veut = All THAT she wants

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Le gouvernement voudrait baisser les impôts maintenant, ce qui ne manque pas d’ironie

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Government would like to reduce taxes now, it doesn’t lack irony / it has a nerve (= ne pas manquer d’air)✅

The Government would like to cut down taxes which is nothing short of irony

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J’ai complètement oublié ce dont nous avons parlé.

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I completely forgot what we talked about. ✅

I completely forgot what we talked about
I clean forgot