Preparation 15
Terms
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- à gauche
- on the left, the left
- à pied
- walking
- aie
- have (irregular "tu" imperitive of "avoir")
- aller à pied
- to go on foot, walk
- allumer
- to light
- archéologique
- archeological
- assis
- seated, sitting
- attendre qqn, attendre qqch
- to wait for someone, to wait for something
- au fond
- in the back
- l'autoroute
- (f) superhighway
- avoir besoin de
- to need
- ayez
- have (irregular "vous" imperitive of "avoir")
- ayons
- let's have (irregular "nous" imperitive of "avoir')
- le bar
- café counter
- le bout
- end (terminal point in space)
- au bout du quai
- at the end of the platform
- le canal
- canal
- la cendre
- ash
- le cendrier
- ashtray
- le chapeau
- hat
- le chemin
- road, way
- chercher qqn, chercher qqch
- to look for someone, to look for something
- compter sur qqn
- to count on someone, rely on someone
- continuer
- to continue, keep on
- d’accord
- OK, agreed
- debout
- standing
- demander
- to ask, ask for
- demander son chemin
- to ask directions
- descendre
- to get out, off (of a vehicle)
- devant
- in front of, ahead of
- droit
- straight
- la droite; sur votre droite
- right (right-hand side); on your right
- écouter qqn; écouter qqch
- to listen to someone; to listen to something
- en bas
- downstairs, down, at the bottom
- en haut
- upstairs, up, at the top
- l’entrée(feminine)
- entrance
- l’est(masculine)
- east
- à l’est de
- east of
- exactement
- exactly
- faire des ronds
- to make smoke rings
- faire signe à qqn
- to signal to someone
- le feu
- fire
- le feu rouge
- red light, traffic light
- la fouille
- dig, search
- le site des fouilles archéologiques
- archeological dig
- la fumée
- smoke
- la gauche
- left (left hand side)
- le grenier
- attic
- le guichet
- ticket-window
- il s’appelle
- his name is, it is called
- indiquer
- to tell, point out
- l’intérieur (masculine)
- inside of the café (opposite of la terrasse)
- à l’intérieur
- inside the café
- je voudrais
- I’d like, I’d like to (conditional form)
- jusqu’Ã
- until, up to
- jusqu’au coin
- up to the corner
- la
- direct object pronoun replacing feminine singular noun: her, it
- là-bas
- there, over there
- le lac
- a lake
- le
- direct object pronoun replacing masculine singular noun: him, it
- les
- direct object pronoun replacing plural noun: them
- loin d’ici
- far from here
- loin
- far, far away
- loin de + place
- far from + place
- le magasin d’alimentation
- food store
- la main
- hand
- la marche
- walking
- cinq minutes de marche
- a five-minute walk
- le mètre
- meter (unit of length in the metric system)
- à cinq cents mètres
- 500 meters away
- le nord
- north
- au nord de
- north of>
- l’ouest (masculine)
- west
- à l’ouest de
- west of
- le panneau
- road sign, directional sign
- par où
- which way, through which way
- la parole
- word (especially a spoken word as opposed to a written word)
- pas du tout
- not at all
- pas encore
- not yet
- pas plus
- no more
- pour
- in order to
- pour aller
- in order to go
- pourriez-vous?
- Would you be able to? Could you?
- pourriez; vous pourriez
- would be able; you would be able to (conditional form)
- prendre à droite
- to go right on (a street)
- prendre une rue à gauche
- to turn into a street
- près d’ici
- near here
- le quai
- platform
- Qu’est-ce qu’on fait?
- What do we do/should we do?
- regarder qqn, regarder qqch
- to look at someone, to look at something
- reposer
- to put back down
- le signe
- sign, gesture
- sois
- be (irregular tu imperative of être)
- la sortie
- exit
- le sous-sol
- basement
- soyez
- be (irregular vous imperative of être)
- la station
- subway station
- le sucrier
- sugar bowl
- le sud
- south
- au sud de
- south of
- surtout
- especially, above all
- le terminus
- last stop
- tourner
- to turn, to stir
- tout
- all, everything
- tout + adjective or adverb
- very
- tout près d’ici
- very near here
- tout de suite
- immediately
- tout droit
- straight ahead
- traverser
- to cross
- vous verrez
- you will see (future tense form)
- vers
- toward
- vietnamien
- Vietnamese
- le village
- a village
- le voilà
- there he is
- la voiture
- car
- y
- there, to there