Preparation 14
Terms
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- à
- une demi-heure a half hour away
- acheté
- bought (past participle of acheter)
- l’après-midi
- afternoon
- l’appétit (masculine); avoir de l’appétit; avoir peu d’appétit
- appetite; to have an appetite; not to have much appetite, not to feel much like eating
- l’arrondissement
- administrative division of French cities
- l’assiette (feminine)
- plate
- aujourd’hui
- today
- autre chose
- something else
- balayer
- to sweep
- le beurre
- butter
- bien; J’ai bien peur.
- very (intensifier); I’m very scared.
- bien sûr
- of course
- bien sûr que non
- of course not
- bizarre
- strange
- le bol
- bowl used for serving coffee in the morning
- Ça ne fait rien.
- That doesn’t matter.
- le carnet
- a book of ten subway tickets
- ce que
- what (relative pronoun)
- les céréales (feminine plural)
- breakfast cereal
- changer
- to change
- changer de train
- to change trains
- Comment ça?
- Why is that/How come? (colloquial)
- comprendre
- to understand
- compris
- understood (past participle of comprendre)
- la confiture
- jam
- la consommation
- drink (at a bar or café)
- la correspondance
- connection (in terms of transportation)
- le couteau (plural: les couteaux)
- knife
- le couvert
- place-setting
- créé
- created (past participle of créer)
- créer
- to create
- le croissant
- croissant, flaky, crescent-shaped roll
- la cuiller (also spelled cuillère)
- spoon
- décidé
- decided (past participle of décider)
- décider
- to decide
- décider de faire qqch
- to decide to do something
- découvrir
- to discover
- décrocher
- to pick up the phone
- déjà
- already
- la demi-heure
- a half hour
- descendre
- to get off, get out of (a vehicle)
- la direction
- direction, the train to
- dit
- said (past participle of dire)
- dormi
- slept (past participle of dormir)
- dormir
- to sleep
- l’écran
- a screen
- employer
- to use
- en
- about it
- en face
- across the way
- ennuyer
- to bore
- l’éponge (feminine)
- sponge
- essaie
- try (command form)
- essayer
- to try
- essayer de faire qqch
- to try to do something
- essuyer
- to wipe
- comme
- how (used to emphasize an adjective)
- fait
- made, done (past participle of faire)
- la fenêtre
- window
- fermé
- closed (past participle of fermer)
- le fichier
- a file
- la fois; combien de fois
- time (occurrence); how many times
- une fois
- once
- deux fois
- twice
- la fourchette
- fork
- fermer
- to close
- la Gare de l’Est
- major Paris station from where trains leave to the East
- le gros mot
- dirty word, swear word
- les gros mots
- foul language
- le guichet
- ticket window
- l’heure
- time (as on a clock)
- hier
- yesterday
- l’idée (feminine)
- idea
- le jour
- a day
- lire
- to read
- loin
- far
- loin d’ici
- far from here
- lu
- read (past participle of lire)
- le magazine
- magazine
- le matin
- the morning, in the morning
- même
- even
- mettre la table
- to set the table
- mis
- past participle of mettre
- moindre; Je n’en ai pas la moindre idée.
- least, slightest; I don’t have the slightest idea.
- la montre; à ma montre
- watch (timepiece); by my watch
- la nappe
- a tablecloth
- nettoyer
- to clean
- la nuit
- night
- de la nuit
- during the whole night
- oublié
- forgotten (past participle of oublier)
- oublier
- to forget
- ouvert
- opened (past participle of ouvrir)
- ouvrir
- to open
- parfait
- perfect
- partir
- to leave (on a trip)
- pas encore
- not yet
- payer
- to pay
- pendant
- during
- pendant des heures
- for hours
- pensé
- thought (past participle of penser)
- penser à qqch
- to think of something
- penser à autre chose
- to think of something else
- perdre
- to lose
- perdu
- lost (past participle of perdre)
- le petit déjeuner
- breakfast
- la Place de la République
- big square in the eastern part of Paris
- le plan; le plan de Paris
- city map, street map; street and transportation map of Paris
- le plancher
- floor
- près de
- near
- pris
- taken (past participle of prendre)
- pu
- past participle of pouvoir
- le pot
- jar
- quand même
- just the same
- raccrocher
- to hang up (the phone)
- le relais
- rest stop
- rempli
- filled (past participle of remplir)
- remplir
- to fill
- la salle à manger
- the dining room
- la serviette
- napkin
- servir
- to serve
- sonner
- to ring
- sortir
- to go out
- la soucoupe
- saucer
- la station
- subway station
- le sucre
- sugar
- la tartine
- buttered French bread
- la tasse
- cup
- le téléphone
- telephone
- le temps
- time
- on a le temps
- we have (enough) time
- le ticket
- ticket (especially for bus and subway)
- le torchon
- dishrag
- tout près
- very close by
- trouvé
- found (past participle of trouver)
- trouver
- to find
- tutoyer
- to address someone in the tu form
- le vélo
- bike, bicycle
- vendredi
- Friday
- le verre
- glass, drinking glass
- vers
- towards
- voir
- to see
- vouvoyer
- to address someone in the vous form
- vu
- seen (past participle of voir)