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