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Le vocabulaire francais

front 1

aristo pur jus

back 1

pure-blooded aristocrat

front 2

tourne autour des filles

back 2

revolves around girls

front 3

le résumé/la quatrième de couverture

back 3

blurb

front 4

un bleu

back 4

a bruise

front 5

transitive verbs

back 5

need something/someone to complete it (eg. to wash (something), to meet (someone) -> laver, rencontrer)

front 6

intransitive verbs

back 6

good on their own (eg. to sleep (dormir))

front 7

reflexive verbs

back 7

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

front 8

participle

back 8

"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"

front 9

cabossé

back 9

broken (emotionally), dented

front 10

note about adjectives

back 10

  • cabossé — masculine singular (dictionary form)
  • cabossée — feminine singular (add e)
  • cabossés — masculine plural (add s)
  • cabossées — feminine plural (add both e and s)

front 11

ou bien

back 11

or, or perhaps, or maybe

front 12

Et pourtant

back 12

and yet, nevertheless

front 13

le hasard

back 13

chance, luck

front 14

se charger de

back 14

to handle, to take it upon yourself to

front 15

bousculer

back 15

to shake up/jostle/push around

front 16

preposition infinitive rul

back 16

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)

front 17

à + le/la

back 17

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

front 18

Se faire + infinitive

back 18

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