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Towns and cities

Français English
Une capitale A capital
Un grand centre urbain A metropolis
Une ville A town
Habiter To live (in)
Demeurer, résider To dwell
Une zone urbaine An urban area
S'installer (= emménager) To settle
La Cité de Londres The City
Les habitants The citizens
Un quartier A district
L'administration locale Local government
La municipalité, le conseil municipal The council
Populeux Populous
Les quartiers pauvres Slums
Un taudis A slum
Sordide Squalid
Insalubre Unhealthy
Une ruelle, un chemin, une voie,... A lane
Très sale, immonde, dégoutant Filthy
Surpeuplé Overcrowded
Délabré Dilapidated
Démolir (volontairement) To pull down
Rénovation Rehabilitation
Démolir (par bombardement) To bomb
Une maison préfabriquée A prefab
Une pénurie A shortage
Un quartier résidentiel, un lotissment A housing estate
Une banlieue périphérique An outlying suburb
Sain, salubre Healthy
Sûr Safe
Faire la navette (entre son domicile et son travail) To commute
Un appartement (x2) An appartment, a flat (UK)
Un immeuble (x3) A tenement, an appartment block, a block of flats (UK)
Un HLM (x2) A housing project (US), a council house/estate (UK)
Insonorisé Sound-proof
Les espaces verts Green areas
Un urbaniste (x3) A town/urban/city planner
Une ville-dortoir A dormitory town
Des maisons mitoyennes/en rangée (x2) Terraced/Row houses
Une maison de plein-pied A bungalow
Une maison individuelle Une maison individuelle
Une maison jumelée (mitoyenne d'un seul côté) A semi-detached house
Une maison à un étage (x2) A two-storied (US) / single-storey (UK) house
Le rez-de-chaussée (x2) The ground (UK) / first (US) floor
L'étage supérieur The top floor, the upper storey
Une rangée A row
Une artère, la rue principale A thoroughfare
Une petite rue, une rue secondaire A side street
Une ruelle An alley
Un dédale de ruelles A maze of lanes
La chaussée (x2) The road(way), the pavement (US)
Des pavés Cobblestones
Goudronner To tar
Un piéton A pedestrian
Le trottoir The pavement (UK), the sidewalk (US)
Le bord du trottoir The kerb (UK), curb (US)
La gouttière / le caniveau The gutter
Un égoût A sewer
Une canalisation, un tuyau d'évacuation A drain
Bruyant Noisy
Grouiller, fourmiller To teem
Grouillant de passants Teeming with passers-by
Embouteillé Congested
Un embouteillage A traffic jam
Un carrefour A crossroads
Les feux de signalisation Traffic lights
Un rond-point A roundabout
Created by: Matb
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