aristo pur jus
pure-blooded aristocrat
tourne autour des filles
revolves around girls
le résumé/la quatrième de couverture
blurb
un bleu
a bruise
transitive verbs
need something/someone to complete it (eg. to wash (something), to meet (someone) -> laver, rencontrer)
intransitive verbs
good on their own (eg. to sleep (dormir))
reflexive verbs
being done to themselves (se rencontrer, se laver, me laver)
subject must also be the object
the subject does the action TO THEMSELVES so it depends on the context. eg. ils veulent me rencontrer is NOT reflexive because THEY want to meet ME not I want to meet ME
participle
"done" form of a verb - used when combined with "has/have/had" eg. "I have eaten NOT I have eat"... "j'ai mangé, ils auraient dû"
cabossé
broken (emotionally), dented
note about adjectives
- cabossé — masculine singular (dictionary form)
- cabossée — feminine singular (add e)
- cabossés — masculine plural (add s)
- cabossées — feminine plural (add both e and s)
ou bien
or, or perhaps, or maybe
Et pourtant
and yet, nevertheless
le hasard
chance, luck
se charger de
to handle, to take it upon yourself to
bousculer
to shake up/jostle/push around
preposition infinitive rul
after prepositions, verb must be the infinitive
- pour + infinitive → pour manger (in order to eat)
- sans + infinitive → sans parler (without speaking)
- de + infinitive → avant de partir (before leaving), se charger de bousculer (take it upon itself to shake up)
à + le/la
used to describe a state or manner of something
- à l'envers = upside down / inside out / backwards/ wrong way around/ reverse
- à l'endroit = the right way around (the opposite expression)
- à la main = by hand
- à la mode = in fashion
- à l'heure = on time
Se faire + infinitive
to have something done to you rather than you doing it yourself
something is done TO the subject by an outside force
- se faire couper les cheveux = to get your hair cut (it's done to you)
- se faire tomber = to be made to fall / to get knocked down