French Random 25
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unrelatedwaffle on March 11, 2010
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76 terms
French | English |
|---|---|
 une tierce personne | a third party |
| le tribunal correctionnel | criminal court |
| pressentir | to have a premonition about |
| dépister | to track down, to detect (illness) |
| le fléau | scourge, plague |
| éprouver | to feel, to have (sensation) |
| klaxonner | to honk the horn |
| skier | to ski |
| correspondre à | to correspond to |
| advienne que pourra | come what may |
| désormais | from now on |
| le procureur général | public prosecutor |
| s'enquérir de | to inquire about |
| énoncer | to pronounce (verdict), to state (facts), to expound (theory) |
| précoce | early, premature, precocious |
| le pays tiers | third world country, third country |
| corrompre | to bribe, to corrupt |
| rappeler qqch à qn | to remind someone of something |
| la voile | sail |
| la grosseur | lump (medicine) |
| un tiers | third |
| se prévaloir de son ancienneté | to claim seniority |
| advenir | to happen |
| se rappeler | to remember |
| prévaloir | to prevail |
| correspondre | to correspond, to write |
| s'ensuivre | to follow, to ensue |
| prôner | to advocate |
| à l'actif de qn | in someone's favor |
| grosso modo | roughly |
| l'assainissement (m) | improvement, cleaning up, stabilization |
| l'actif (m) | the assets |
| mixte | coeducational, mixed |
| à son tour | in turn |
| la laïcité | secularism |
| le tohu-bohu | confusion, disorder |
| gérer | to manage, to run |
| la polémique | debate |
| fustiger | to flay |
| épargner | to save (money) |
| le mécanisme | mechanism |
| la morphologie | morphology |
| la pomme de douche | shower head |
| la syntaxe | syntax |
| la stylistique | stylistics |
| le coulis | grout |
| la phonologie | phonology |
| le troisième cycle d'université | Ph.D program |
| le locuteur | speaker |
| l'aisance (f) | ease |
| inné | innate |
| psycholinguistique | psycholinguistic |
| la Maîtrise | Master's degree |
| l'optique (f) | perspective |
| interagir | to interact |
| la sémantique | semantics |
| une étendue | expanse |
| l'acquisition des langues secondes (f) | second language acquisition |
| s'efforcer de faire | to try hard to do |
| le doctorat | PhD |
| la juridiction | jurisdiction |
| la phonétique | phonetics |
| intuitif | intuitive |
| le carreau | tile (for floor, wall) |
| le robinet | faucet |
| instaurer | to establish (regime), to impose (curfew) |
| le dialecte | dialect |
| le mémoire | master's thesis |
| le lavabo | sink (in bathroom) |
| doué de | endowed with, gifted with |
| par-delà | beyond |
| le prestige | prestige |
| la baignoire | bathtub |
| la pragmatique | pragmatics |
| le réservoir | tank |
| le deuxième cycle d'université | master's program |
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