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French vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| la poignée | handful; handle |
| la poignée de main | handshake |
| les poignées de l'amour (f,pl) | love handles |
| le sosie | double; look-alike |
| je reviens toujour à cette restaurant | I'm always going back to that restaurant |
| le hayon | tailgate |
| coller au parc-chocs de | to tailgate |
| le parc-chocs | bumper |
| coller | to stick, glue (on) |
| se coller (à) | to press (up) against |
| coller son visage contre le fenêtre | to press one's face against the window |
| débrouiller | to disentangle; unravel |
| se débrouiller | to find a way out of difficulties; manage; cope |
| le mépris | contempt; scorn |
| au mépris de | in defiance of; contrary to |
| il m'arrive de (inf) | sometimes I (inf) |
| arriver à (inf) | to succeed in (inf) |
| arriver (à) | to arrive (at); happen (to); reach |
| arriver à sa fin | to succeed in doing |
| il arrive que | it happens that |
| je n'arrive pas à faire | I can't do |
| en arriver à faire | to get to the stage of doing |
| il lui arrive de faire | he (sometimes) does |
| cela m'est arrive | that happened to me |
| on ne vas jamais y arrivé | that never happens/isn't done |
| rendre des larmes | to give up |
| rendre la monnaie | to make change |
| se rendre compte de | to realize, be aware of |
| rassurer | to reassure |
| on va y arriver | it will work out/succeed |
| réconforter | to console, comfort; fortify, invigorate |
| le réconfort | comfort |
| décoller | unstick; take off (plane); fall behind |
| ajouter foi à | to lend credence to |
| se décoller | to come off |
| arracher (à) | to tear out; away (from); to extort (money) |
| s'arracher les cheveux | to tear one's hair |
| s'arracher (de) | to tear oneself away (from); fight over |
| égorger | to cut the throat of |
| crépu | fuzzy, crinkled |
| sembable (à) | similar (to); alike, like, such; equal |
| nos sembables | our fellow men |
| j'ai retourné le roche | I turned over the rock |
| je sui retourné au roche | I returned to the rock |
| j'ai retourné mon chemise | I turned my shirt inside out |
| j'ai retourné le compliment | I returned the compliment |
| je me suis retourné | I turned around |
| je suis retourné | I went back |
| je suis émouvé | I was moved |
| le tartempion | indeterminate person |