Vocabulaire 3 Flashcards by Zoe Brown | Brainscape

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an immigrant

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un(e) immigré(e)

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a French national of immigrant background

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un(e) français(e) d’origine étrangère

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a cleaning lady

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une femme de ménage

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an employer

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un employeur

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a cleaning company

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une société de nettoyage

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a thankless job

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un travail ingrat

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a teenager

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un(e) ado/adolescent(e)

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medical school

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la faculté de médecine

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low-income housing

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un logement social

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a barrier

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une barrière

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a gap/wedge

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un fossé

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a weight

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un poids

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a short skirt

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une jupe courte

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a tank top

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un débardeur

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a headscarf

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un foulard

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gold jewelry

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des bijoux en or

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literacy classes

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des cours d’alphabétisation

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social climbing

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la promotion sociale

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an injustice

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une injustice

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to come from an immigrant background

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être issu(e) de l’immigration

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to earn a living

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gagner sa vie

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to have offset working hours

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avoir des horaires décalés

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to master a language

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maîtriser une langue

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to face discrimination, to be discriminated against

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être victime de discrimination/souffrir de discrimination

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to use public transportation

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prendre les transports publics

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to do the laundry

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faire la lessive

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to have ambitions for someone

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avoir des ambitions pour qqn

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to despise

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mépriser qqn

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to be ashamed of someone

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avoir honte de qqn

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to embarrass someone

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faire honte à qqn

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to wear Western clothing

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s’habiller à l’occidentale

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to allow oneself to be humiliated

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se laisser humilier

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to be exploited by someone

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se faire exploiter par qqn

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to allow oneself to be exploited

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se laisser exploiter par qqn

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to be deprived of/denied something

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être privé(e) de qqch

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to push something

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pousser qqn

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to confide in someone

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se confier à qqn

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to share an apartment

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être en colocation

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to rebel against

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se rebeller contre

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to be angry

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être en colère

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to skip school

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sécher l’école/les cours

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to be jealous of someone

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jalouser qqn

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to speak ill of someone

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médire de qqn

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to fall in stairs

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tomber dans l’escalier

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to be on sick leave

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être en arrêt maladie

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to have a nightmare

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faire un cauchemar

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to take stock of

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faire le point sur

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to have roots

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avoir des racines

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to be cut off from one’s children

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être coupé(e) de ses enfants

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veiled

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voilé(e)

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motivated

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motivé(e)

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exhausting

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épuisant(e)

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exhausted

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épuisé(e)

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lucid

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lucide

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devoted

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dévoué

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dignified

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digne

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mature

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mûr(e)

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condescending

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condescendant(e)

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marginalized

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marginalisé(e)

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to cross the border

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passer la frontière

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a foreigner

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un(e) étranger(e)

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the home country

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le pays d’origine

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uprooted

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déraciné(e)

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a residence permit

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un permis/titre de séjour

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to get a visa

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obtenir un visa

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to be regularized/have one’s papers

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être régularisé(e)

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naturalization application

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une demande de naturalisation

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to become a French citizen

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acquérir la nationalité (française)

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a 2nd or 3rd generation French person

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un(e) français(e) issu(e) de l’immigration

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to fit in

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s’intégrer