French review

Est-ce que

Literally means, is it that?

Est-ce que can mean:

Do they, do we, are they, are we, is she, is he, will he, will she, they (depends on context)

lequel/laquelle/lesquels/lesquelles

Which? Which one? Which ones? (Order: m/sing, m/pl, f/sing, f/pl).

Est-ce qu'elles vont à la mer?

Are they going to the sea?

Est-ce que tu vas au lac?

Are you going to the lake?

Est-ce qu'+Subj+verb

Question(starts with vowel)

Est-ce que+subj+verb

Question

Va-t-on a la campagne?

Are people going to the country?

Aime-t-Elle aller à l'aéroport?

Does she like/love the airport

With l'inversion if the verb ends with a vowel and the subject starts with a vowel we use a

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Aiment-ils le rivage

Do they like/love the shore

Aimes-tu la banlieue?

Do you like/love the suburbs?

Ils aiment le rivage?

Do they like/live the shore.

Tu aimes la banlieue?

Do you like/love the suburbs?

Les garçons ne viennent pas au marriage sans expérience

Boys don't come into marriage without experience

Cette étudient

This student(f)

Cet étudien

This student(m)

Témoigner

To show, witness, testify

Avoir des enfants

to have children

Penser au marriage

To think about marriage

Penser de

To think of, to have an opinion of someone, something.

Penser à

to think about someone or something

Un important marquer de conformisme

An important marker of social conformation

Une sociologue

sociologist (f)

Un sociologue

a sociologist (m)

nuancer

to modify, to qualify, explain in detail what you're saying

S'étabilisser

To set up, to create, to establish, to take up residence

S'allonger

To stretch out, to lay down

L'âge moyen du première marriage

The average age of marriage

se ranger

To settle down, to line up, to fall in line

Assumer leur célibat

To be alright with, to be confident with being single

Assumer

to accept, To be alright with, to be comfertabel with, to take on

nombreuses jeunes femmes

Many/numerous young women

Convoler en juste noces

To walk down the aisle, to wed, to marry

Connaître

To know (music, art, literature, places)

Savoir

to know (facts, how to do something)

sentir

To feel, sense, smell, taste

Renchérir

To increase, to outdo, to outbid,

Soupirer

to sigh

S'engager

To be committed, engaged, undertake

S'amuser

To have fun, to enjoy oneself

se rencontrer

To meet up, to gather

se marier

to get married, to marry

La transition rapide l'enfance et la vie adulte

The quick transition between childhood and adult life

La pression commerce à se faire sentir

Pressure begins to be felt, pressure begins to be sensed

Présenter de solides arguments

To present arguments

le mec

guy, dude

Il est plus facile de trouver

It's easier to find

La serial shoppeuse

Shopaholic(f)

l'enquête(f)

Survey, investigation

L'enquête nationale(f)

National survey, National investigation

la revendication

demand, claim, statement

Notamment pour les enfants

Especially for children

La vogue du marriage coutumier

Marriage is popular, custom

le célibat

single, unmarried

le plus souvent

The most often

souvent

often

rappeler

To remember, to recall, to call someone back

depuis peu

For a short time/while

se marier

to get married

Les limits que toutes les filles connaissent

The limits that all girls know

Rester très rare dans la pratique

To remain rare in practice

Ils doivent le stipuler

They have to state it clearly

en réalité

In reality

Fait fuis quelqu'un

To make someone run away

Renchérir

To go farther, to outdo someone

Savoir ce qu'on veut

To know what one wants

Par les deux sexes

By both men and women/both sexes

D'après les statistiques compilées

According to compiled statistics

sans expérience

Without experience

Les dispositions plus équitables envers les femmes

More favorable conditions for women

les époux

married couple

le marriage

marriage

empêcher

to prevent, to avoid

s'empresser

To hurry to do something, to gather around

rougir

to blush

Terminer leurs études

To finish one's studies/school

Les jeunes

Young people

Le livre choix

Free choice

la revendication

to demand, claim

Rencontre

To meet someone, to come across someone

le droit

Right, entitlement, law

depuis

since, for (a period of time)

Dans l'immédiat

Immediately, right away

Le devoir religieux

Religious duty, obligation

souhaiter

To wish, to want, to hope for

decrocher

to pick up the phone, to get something

Lutter

fight, struggle

soumettre

To apply

La constitution d'une famille

Creation, setting up a family

La stabilité d'une famille

Family stability

Les noces

Wedding, wedding ceremony

Le battement des cils

Fluttering one's eyelashes

Le battement

Flutter, bat, beat

décrocher un emploi stable

To get a stable job

décrocher

To get something, to pick up the phone, to pick something up

publier

To publish, to release, to post

Convoler

To get married, remarried

Tardivement

Late

Bricoler

To do odd jobs, to do little jobs, to do home improvement