French vocab 2 💕

un périple

a Journey

une/la cueillette

être/avoir recueilli.e

the gathering/collection (like a phase of study, or activity in itself)

past participle: was gathered/had gathered

une reviviscence

a flashback

graines de pavot, gâteaux aux citrons pavot

poppy seed / lemon poppy seed loaf

diff entre : se diriger // [se] déplacer

se diriger = take yourself somewhere (usually short distance on foot) or in a good direction DIRECTION IS KEY (ex giving directions, going a particular place on a particular path)

(se) déplacer = to move yourself somewhere very short distance (ex changing seats, handing someone something across the room)

une soutenance

a defence (like dissertation), a support/assistance

pétrir

to kneed (as in dough)

froissé.e , fer à repassage

chewed up/wrinkled/deformed/upset/ annoyed/cranky , a clothing iron

pensée arborescente

branched, nonlinear thinking

d’un côté il y a

on one side there is

ALWAYS D’un côté FIRST

estival.e

summer/summery

un échantillon , une donnée

a sample, a data (point)

une débarbouillette

a washcloth/exfoliating cloth

un cafard

a roach

déjouer

to outwit or thwart

un/une rabat-joie

a kill-joy

une aisle, une selle

an armpit, feces/stool

tu connais le bail

you know what’s up/ur doing the damn thing

la méchanceté / la gentillesse

meanness/cruelty /// kindness

n’avoir qu’à INF

an order/moral obligation

des plaies

wounds

convoiter

to covet

un autel

an alter

une coccinelle

a ladybug

fredonner

to hum

ordonner de

to order, command

s’endurcir

to harden (esp of spirit/mentality)

arpenter

1 to walk/go somewhere with a purpose 2 to explore and cross a big distance,

une déesse

a goddess

un lapin

a rabbit

tirer

to pull

jouir

to enjoy

une graine, une racine

a seed, a root

les marins

the tides

étouffer, étouffant.e

to suffocate, suffocating

chétif

puny, very small and impuissant

un repère

a landmark

un plagiat

a plagiarism

un carnet

a notebook

(se) contraindre

to compel (one’s self)

lasser

to tire/ to become tired

un trésor

a treasure

sim bw couleurs et saisons

category name (couleur, saison) Féminin

each type (rose, l’hiver) masculin

diff bw retourner // rentre

retourner = when you return directly back, like doing a loop (ex je retourne chez moi parce j’ai oublié mes clés)

rentre = when you return after also doing/being elsewhere, (ex je rentre au canada après mon voyage)

les ventes aux enchères

an auction

revendiquer

to claim

chronophage

(something) that takes a lot of time

racaille

scum

méconnu, mépris.e

unrecognized, mal-understand/seen (indigne d’attention/honour)

susciter

evoke, arouse

ramasser

to pick up

tracassé

bothered

hélas

alas

désarroi

dismay

détourner

to put something in a new context or not use it for its original purpose

pompette

tipsy

un hibou

an owl

un marecage

a swamp, wetland

un ruisseau

a stream, a creek

“ça c’est ma madeleine de proust”

something sweet and lovely that reminds you of good childhood memories

[une] érudit.e

intelligent, soutenue

une trottinette

a scooter

l’outre-mer, la métropole

over-seas , continental

être matinal.e, être du matin/soir

to be a morning person

se divertir, divertissant.e, divertissement

to be entertained, entertaining, entertainment

parois, une cloison/cloisonner

glass wall for shower / a wall / to wall off

coéquipier

teammates

une œuvre // un ouvrage

all the works of someone, the cannon / a book [formal]

inné

innate

un lapsus

a lapse

un éclair, le tonnerre

lightening, thunder

prendre de l’ampleur

to increase, become more and more

le chevet, au chevet

the bedside (table, person), to be at the bedside

ex, livre chavet = ur nighttime bedside book

déchiffrer

to decode

diff bw :

pendant

pour

dans

en

pendant = duration real + completed, or highly certain in the future (good default word)

pour = duration planned for the future (esp for contracts or plans without certainty), (not the best default duration word, NEVER for past)

en = the time it takes to do/complete something. translate to “xyz WITHIN 00:00” specified duration

dans = the time after which something will be available/begin. translate to “xyz WILL BEGIN 00:00” specified duration

c’est nickel

it’s perfect !

fiable

reliable

moisi, le moisi

mouldy, the mold / adj also meaning démodé, old

(noun) d’occasion

(noun) secondhand

feuilleter

to browse

un pigeon

someone who goes to little tourist traps and picks up little trinkets and useless things there

récurer

to scrub

trempé.e

soaked

trancher, une tranche

to slice, a slice/part

déconner

to mess around

aplatir

to flatten

les corbeaux

the crows

une garce, la garce

a bitch, the bitch!

lisse

smooth

gratter

to scratch

faire un carton, cartonner

to be popular, to popularize,

se faire un film // [arrête de ] faire ton/mon/son cinema

to imagine/daydream something (esp an unreasonable thing) in so much detail like a film // [stop] pretending, making your drama

un sale (noun)

disagreeable, bad, used to emphasize an insult / (après noun, dirty)

mou/molle

soft (m/f) opposite of hard,

of a person: lacking dynamism

magistral.e

majestic, awe-inspiring

insipide

tasteless, flat, boring

éblouissant.e

divine, impressive, amazing

from : verb to get the sun in your eyes

niais.e, cul-cul / niaiserie

simple, naive, almost to the point of being dumb, “cul-cul [la praline]” / silly dumb activity

haleter / haletant.e

to breathe rapidly / suspenseful

fade

nulle, non spicy or savoury, boring, flat