Summer Work Key Vocab

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Journées

Noun;

Plural noun meaning ‘days’, stemming from the single ‘journée’ meaning day or daytime. It is a feminine noun meaning articles such as ‘une’ or ‘la’ must be in their feminine form. ‘Journée’ differs from ‘jour’ as it refers to sunrise until sunset whereas the masculine noun ‘jour’ refers to the 24-hour period in a calendar day.

On a passé

Past tense phrase meaning ‘they passed’ or ‘they spent’, ‘On’ is a singular pronoun in this case substituting ‘il/elle’ and is paired with the present tense conjugation of avoir as the stem for the phrase.

The infinitive ‘passer’ meaning to spend or pass is conjugated following the ‘passé composé’ pattern, and as it is a regular verb only one e is put on the stem and there is no ‘s’ as it is singular.

Sans utiliser

Adverb,

Sans is an adverb or preposition meaning ‘without’ or ‘none’.

Infinitive,

Meaning to use

Lu un livre

Past tense phrase meaning ‘read a book’. Lire is an irregular verb so does not follow the standard conjugation patterns of the passé composé, resulting in ‘lu.’

Mes copains

Noun (and a posessive) masculine,

Meaning ‘my friends’, it is the masculine and plural form of ‘copain.’

Réussi

Adjective,

Meaning successful, réussi is the masculine form and réussie is the feminine form. As an infinitive ‘réussir’ it means a success.

L’ordinateur

Noun,masculine,

Meaning computer.

Partageaient

Verb,

The 3rd person conjugation using the imperfect tense meaning shared, ie its/elles partageaient from the infinitive partager.

Participer

Infinitive,

Meaning to take part in or to contribute to.

Senti

Verb

In the perfect past form meaning felt, comes from the infinitive ‘sentir’ meaning to feel.

Bientôt

Adverb,

meaning soon, frequently used as ‘À bientôt’ meaning '‘See you soon.’

Retourner

Infinitive,

In the context of the given text it means ‘to return’ however it can also mean ‘to turn.’

Je suis peut-être accro

Present tense phrase meaning ‘I am possibly addicted.’

Je suis, - the present tense conjugation of ‘être’ meaning ‘I am.’

Peut-être, - adverb meaning ‘maybe’, ‘perhaps’ or ‘possibly.’

Accro, - adjective meaning ‘addicted’, ‘hooked on(slang)’ etc.