French Vocab 2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
La lucarne | Skylight |
Le lance-flammes | Flamethrower |
Le myosotis | Forget-me-not |
Le phasme | Stick-insect |
La gentilhommière | Small manor house |
La fouine | Polecat |
Le terreau | Compost |
Le ligne de flottaison | Line of floattaison |
Le foc | Jib sail |
L'amarre | Painter |
Virement de bord | Tack (in sailing) |
La bruyère | Heath |
La pince à levier | Crowbar |
Le caniche | Poodle |
Le martin-pêcheur | Kingfisher |
Agacer | To irritate |
Jeûner | To fast |
Renseigner | To informe |
Pondre des œufs | To lay eggs |
La mutuelle | Friendly society / community |
a m’embête | It annoys me |
L'actu / les actus | The news [slang] |
Un ado | An adolescent [slang] |
Déduire | To deduce |
La dernière des dernières | The very last one |
La der | Slang for 'la dernière' |
Fréquenter | To mingle, to hang out with |
Folklorique | Weird / wacky [archaic] |
Un frigo | Slang for 'un réfrigérateur' |
Un hosto | Slang for 'un hôpital' |
Immobilier | Property / real estate |
Impeccable | Terrific |
Impec | Slang for 'impeccable' |
Un imperméable | A raincoat |
Un imper | Slang for 'un imperméable' |
Un labo | A lab |
Le magnétophone | Tape recorder |
Le magnéto | Slang for 'le magnétophone' |
Un ordi | Slang for 'un ordinateur' |
Personnel | Personal |
Perso | Slang for 'personnel' |
La philo | Slang for 'la philosophie' |
Un pneumatique | A tyre |
Un pneu | Slang for 'un pneumatique' |
Un pull | A sweater [slang for 'un pull-over'] |
Sensass | Slang for 'sensationnel' |
Habitation à loyer moderé [HLM] | Council houses 'les HLM' |
Lycée d'enseignement professionnel [LEP] | Vocational high school |
Mega octet [Mo] | Megabyte |
Organisme génétiquement modifié [OGM] | GMO Food |
Le guard-boue | Mudguard (on a bike) |
Pédagogique | Educational |
La niaque | Fighting spirit |
Endosser | To take on / to shoulder (responsibility) |
Saccager | To wreck / devastate |
Viscéral | Deep-root |
Épargner | To save (money, effort) |
Assumer | To take on / to assume (responsibility, a role e.g.) |
Présumer | To assume |
Débrouiller | To untangle / to sort out |
Se débrouiller | To get by / to cope / to manage |
Faillir | To almost do something (e.g. to almost miss) |
Ficher | Formally: to file Informally: to do / to give / to put / to leave |
Ignorer | To not know (how) |
Installer | To install / to set up / to put in / to furnish |
S'installer | To settle / to sit down / to set oneself up |
Ne ... que | Only |
Régaler | To treat someone to a meal / to regale someone with a story |
Tenir | To hold / to keep / to take up/fulfill To keep under control / to run / to manage / to organise (an event) |
Trier | To sort |
Tutoyer | To use 'tu' |
Vouvoyer | To use 'vous' |
Falloir | To be neccessary / to need |
Ce qu'il faut ? | What's needed? |
Ce sont | Replaces 'c'est' when talking about a specific person/idea/thing |
Arabophone | Speaker of Arabic |
Anglophone | Speaker of English |
Francophone | Speaker of French |
Néerlandophone | Speaker of Dutch |
Lusophone | Speaker of Portuguese |
Russophone | Speaker of Russian |
Sinophone | Speaker of Chinese |
Suédophone | Speaker of Sweedish |
Un apéritif | An appetiser |
Un digestif | An after-dinner drink |
Je suis rassasié | I'm satisfied (referring to food) |
Commander | To order |
Je vous écoute ? | What would you like? [lit: I'm listening to you} |
Ça a été ? | Was everything OK? (with you meal, e.g.) |
L'Hexagone | 'The Hexagon' - nickname for France |
Le sujet | The subject (of a sentence) |
Va t'en ! | Go away! |
Plus lentement SVP | More slowly please |
Il a un verre dans le nez | He's drunk! |
Une dizaine | About 10 |
Une douzaine | A douzen |
Une vingtaine | About 20 |
Une centaine | About 100 |
Ça m’est égal | I don't mind / it's all the same to me |
Embêtant | Annoying |
Le maillot de bain | Swimming costume |
Asiatique | Asian |
Douvres | Dover |
Tirer | To pull |
Le bouchon | Cork |
Il est exclu que | It's out of the question |
Le tri | Sort |
L'espoir | Hope |
Se fâcher contre | To get angry with, to get cross with |
Fâcher | To anger |
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