Question | Answer |
accueillir | to welcome |
améliorer | to improve |
bouleversement (m) | upheaval |
chômage (m) | unemployment |
cristalliser | to crystallise, to concentrate |
dépaysé(e) | to not feel at home |
faire monter | cause a rise in |
inondation (f) | flood |
insécurité | insecurity |
involontaire | unwanted, forced |
mal (m) maux (pl) | harm |
nostalgie (f) du pays | homesickness |
sécheresse (f) | drought |
souffrance (f) | difficulty, suffering |
tremblement (m) de terre | earthquake |
volontaire | voluntary, willing |
allocation (f) | allowance |
atteindre | to reach |
avoir lieu | to take place, to occur |
discours (m) | speech ,position |
emploi (m) | employment |
envahir | to overrun, to invade |
faire preuve | to show |
milieu (m) social | environment |
souvent | often |
Algérie (f) | Algeria |
amer/amère | bitter |
angoisse (f) | anxiety, worry |
avoir le droit | to be allowed, to have a right to |
Caldoche (m/f) | French citizen living in New Caledonia |
campagne (f) de terrorisme | a terrorist campaign |
chrétien(ne) | Christian |
colonisateur (m) | coloniser |
également | equally, just as... |
en tant que | as |
entreprise (f) | business |
interdire | to forbid |
mal (m) du pays | homesickness (for a country) |
malentendu (m) | misunderstanding |
marcher | to work, to be possible |
musulman(e) | Muslim |
oser | to dare |
pied-noir (m/f) | French citizen living formerly in Algeria |
porter le tchador | to wear the Muslim headdress |
rafale (f) | burst (of gunfire) |
augmenter | to increase |
baisser | to decrease |
en baisse | decreasing |
camion (m) | truck |
clandestin(e) | secret, hidden, illegal |
dissoudre | to dissolve, to melt into |
embrasser | to embrace (literal), to encompass (figurative) |
enceinte (f) des écoles | school precincts |
freiner | to put a break on, to slow down |
main-d'œuvre (f) | workforce, labour force |
paraître | to seem |
pays (m) d'accueil | welcoming or host country |
port (m) du voile | wearing the veil or hijab |
recrutement (m) | recruitment, signing-up |
terre (f) d'asile | asylum, place of refuge |
vague (f) | wave |
à peine | hardly, scarcely |
aisé(e) | well-off |
arc-en-ciel (m) | rainbow |
bailleur/bailleresse | renting officer |
banlieue (f) | suburb |
berge (f) | river edge |
compter | to contain, to count |
décennie (f) | decade |
se déplacer | to move |
s'efforcer | to make an effort |
gérer | to manage, to look after |
hausse (f) | rise |
immobilier (m) | real estate |
s'installer | to settle |
logements (mpl) sociaux | low-rent housing |
loyer (m) | rent |
maintenir | to maintain |
ménage (m) | household |
montant (m) | sum, price |
moyenne (f) | the average, the mean |
répartir | to spread |
ruelle (f) | small lane |
séduire | attract |
traiter | to deal with |
à proximité | near |
arrestation (f) | arrest |
s'attendre à | to expect |
décès (m) | death |
déclencheur (m) | trigger (factor) |
délabré(e) | run-down, in a poor state |
durée (f) | time, period |
échec (m) | setback, failure |
égalitaire | egalitarian, offering equal chances |
électrocution (f) | electrocution |
embraser | to inflame |
émeute (f) | riot |
émeutier(-ière) | rioter |
envenimer | to make or turn nasty |
état (m) d'urgence | state of emergency |
forces (fpl) de l'ordre | riot police |
gaz (m) lacrymogène | tear gas |
grenade (f) | hand-thrown explosive |
incendier | to set fire to |
lancer | to throw |
marginaliser | to marginalize, to 'freeze out' |
mépriser | to scorn, to put down |
mosquée (f) | mosque |
poste source électrique | electric power substation |
poursuivre | to pursue |
rassembler | to call together |
se répandre | to spread |
sapeur-pompier (m) | fireman |
témoigner | to show, to illustrate |
à plusieurs reprises | on several occasions |
exclure | to exclude |
laïcité (f) | lay or non-religious nature |
ostentatoire | ostentatious, very visible |
se résoudre | to sort itself out, to be decided |
retirer | to take off |
comportement (m) | behaviour |
contrôle (m) | police check |
contrôle routier | road block/check |
contrôleur (m) | conductor, inspector |
courber l'échine (f) | to bow down to |
exiger | to demand |
fouille (f) au corps | body search |
fusil-mitrailleur (m) | machine-gun |
moindre | least |
plainte (f) | complaint |
prétendre | to claim |
science (f) de l'information | information technology |
subir | to undergo |
tutoyer | to use the familiar 'tu' form in speaking |
viser | to aim at |