french vocab

To act

Agir

To land

Atterrir

To warn

Avertir

To blush

Rougir

Shoes

Chaussure

Slippers

Pantoufles

to draft

Rédiger

Floor

Plancher

To ask how long something has been going on

Formal: Depuis combien de temps?

Informal:

• il y a combien de temps que?

• Ça fait combien que?

To tell how long something has been going on

Formal: verb present tense + depuis + time expression

Informal:

• il y a

• Voila à

• Ça fait

Magazine

Revue

Newspaper

Journal

To give dirty look

Regarder d’un mauvais œil

To be startled

Sursauter

To entertain people

Amuser la galerie

A gift, a special ability to do something

Le don

To predict

Prédire

To realize

Se rendre compte

Premonition (an intuitive feeling)

Le pressentiment

Uneasy

Mal à l’aise

To confuse

Confondre

To break/ break off (especially figuratively)

Rompre

To stretch out, offer, to tend to

Tendre

To boot ( a computer)

Amorcer

To launch

Lancer

To threaten

Ménacer

To resign, quit

Renoncer

To bark

Aboyer

To sweep

Balayer

To grind, make into powder

Broyer

To frighten

Effrayer

To wipe

Essuyer

to drown

Noyer

The cross out

Rayer

To bring (someone)

Amener

To take (someone)

Emmener

To freeze

Géler

To lead

Mener

To walk

Promener

To spelll

Épeler

To lead through

To turn on (a light) again

Rallumer

To do odds jobs, putter around

Faire du bricolage

to do the windows

Faire les carreaux

To do the shopping/ marketing

Faites les courses

To do the laundry

Faire le linge, faire le lessive

To do the housework

Faire le ménage

To do the dishes

Faire la vaisselle