Vocabulaire 3 Flashcards by Zoe Brown

an immigrant

un(e) immigré(e)

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a French national of immigrant background

un(e) français(e) d’origine étrangère

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a cleaning lady

une femme de ménage

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an employer

un employeur

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a cleaning company

une société de nettoyage

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a thankless job

un travail ingrat

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a teenager

un(e) ado/adolescent(e)

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medical school

la faculté de médecine

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low-income housing

un logement social

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a barrier

une barrière

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a gap/wedge

un fossé

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a weight

un poids

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a short skirt

une jupe courte

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a tank top

un débardeur

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a headscarf

un foulard

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gold jewelry

des bijoux en or

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literacy classes

des cours d’alphabétisation

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social climbing

la promotion sociale

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an injustice

une injustice

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to come from an immigrant background

être issu(e) de l’immigration

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to earn a living

gagner sa vie

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to have offset working hours

avoir des horaires décalés

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to master a language

maîtriser une langue

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to face discrimination, to be discriminated against

être victime de discrimination/souffrir de discrimination

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to use public transportation

prendre les transports publics

to do the laundry

faire la lessive

to have ambitions for someone

avoir des ambitions pour qqn

to despise

mépriser qqn

to be ashamed of someone

avoir honte de qqn

to embarrass someone

faire honte à qqn

to wear Western clothing

s'habiller à l'occidentale

to allow oneself to be humiliated

se laisser humilier

to be exploited by someone

se faire exploiter par qqn

to allow oneself to be exploited

se laisser exploiter par qqn

to be deprived of/denied something

être privé(e) de qqch

to push something

pousser qqn

to confide in someone

se confier à qqn

to share an apartment

être en colocation

to rebel against

se rebeller contre

to be angry

être en colère

to skip school

sécher l'école/les cours

to be jealous of someone

jalouser qqn

to speak ill of someone

médire de qqn

to fall in stairs

tomber dans l'escalier

to be on sick leave

être en arrêt maladie

to have a nightmare

faire un cauchemar

to take stock of

faire le point sur

to have roots

avoir des racines

to be cut off from one's children

être coupé(e) de ses enfants

veiled

voilé(e)

motivated

motivé(e)

exhausting

épuisant(e)

exhausted

épuisé(e)

lucid

lucide

devoted

dévoué

dignified

digne

mature

mûr(e)

condescending

condescendant(e)

marginalized

marginalisé(e)

to cross the border

passer la frontière

a foreigner

un(e) étranger(e)

the home country

le pays d'origine

uprooted

déraciné(e)

a residence permit

un permis/titre de séjour

to get a visa

obtenir un visa

to be regularized/have one's papers

être régularisé(e)

naturalization application

une demande de naturalisation

to become a French citizen

acquérir la nationalité (française)

a 2nd or 3rd generation French person

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

to fit in

s'intégrer