French- trinity term
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clarabenjamin on April 24, 2012
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54 terms
French | English |
|---|---|
 raturer | to cross out |
| pondre | to lay |
| la craie | chalk |
| à défaut de quoi | failing which |
| se brouiller avec qqn | to fall out with sb |
| l'épingle | a pin |
| avoir des fourmils | to have pins and needles |
| se faire coiffer | to get one's hair done |
| le pré | meadow |
| en cinq minutes | in five minutes (within the space of) |
| dans cinq minutes | in five minutes (expressing future) |
| le trou à rats | a dump (house) |
| baver d'admiration sur | to drool over |
| le domestique | servant |
| la femme de ménage | cleaning lady |
| la gouvernante | house-keeper/ governess |
| il gouverneur | governer |
| le tuteur | guardian (legal) |
| l'ange gardien | guardian angel |
| mal tenu | neglected |
| délabré | dilapidated (strong) |
| ressentir | to feel |
| le ressentiment | resentment |
| l'un l'autre | each other |
| faire pipi au lit | to wet the bed |
| ne pas fermer de l'oeil de la nuit | to not sleep a wink all night |
| trempé | sodden |
| détrempé | saturated (soil) |
| le galet | pebble |
| le vaisseau | vessel (ship) |
| le vaisseau sanguin | blood vessel |
| le vaisseau spatial | space ship |
| OVNI | UFO |
| la flaque | puddle |
| la mare | pond |
| l'étang | pond/ lake (manmade) |
| le lac | lake |
| le bassin | basin (river), ornamental pond, pelvis |
| le fou rire | a fit of giggles |
| attrapper un fou rire | to get the giggles |
| mortifié | mortified |
| regarder par la fenêtre | to look out the window |
| arpenter | to walk up and down |
| de long en large | up and down, to and fro, thoroughly |
| le pardessus | overcoat |
| le ruisseau | a stream |
| le fleuve | river |
| le plancher | floor (wooden) |
| veiller à qch | to see to st |
| sans ménagement | bluntly |
| le cercueil | coffin |
| éploré | grief-striken, tearful, weeping |
| immoler | to sacrifice |
| déparer | mar, spoil |
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