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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1303 words, in teaching order

Words 301–400
trouver
to find; to retrieve something lost, turn up something hidden, or encounter something previously unknown to one; to find (something to be the case); to think or consider (something to be so); to find oneself (at a place or in a situation); to be found, to be situated, to be; to be the case, to turn out (that)
Verb
lui
him, he, it; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject; him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object
Pronoun
devoir
must, to have to, should (as a requirement); must; should; must, to do or have with certainty; to owe (money, obligation and etc); (even) if it is necessary (+ infinitive); to have a duty to
Verb
fuir
to escape; to flee; to leak; to have a leak
Verb
arrêter
to stop, to come to a standstill; to halt, to stop from moving; to arrest (someone, a criminal, etc.); to stop, to cease (an activity); to come to a stop; to settle; to conclude; to agree (upon); to wait
Verb
gêner
to hinder, hamper, bother; to bother, annoy, irritate; to embarrass; to be bothered about something
Verb
arriver
to arrive (often followed by a location); to happen (unlike other translations of happen, can be used with an indirect object to specify something/somebody affected by the action; it may also be used with a relative clause in the subjunctive); to cope, to manage; to be able to, to manage (to do something successfully); to obtain a level of success or fame
Verb
prendre
to take; to eat; to drink; to get; to buy; to rob; to deprive; to make; to catch, to work, to start; to get (something) caught (in), to jam; to get into, to come over (to cause to behave uncharacteristically, to affect in a surprising manner, to possess); to start having a negative feeling towards someone; to gain; …
Verb
temps
time (in general); weather; tense
Noun
traverser
to cross, to go across
Verb
rue
street, road; rue (the plant)
Noun
savoir
to know (something); to know how (to do something); to be able to, to be apt to (especially in the negative or interrogative conditional; used in the positive in Belgium); to find out
Verb
intégralité
entirety, wholeness
Noun
visser
to screw in; to screw on; to serve; to sell drugs
Verb
décision
decision
Noun
village
village; town, city
Noun
problème
problem; trouble
Noun
queue
tail; queue, line; cue; cock, dick (penis)
Noun
seul
lonely; alone; only; single
Adjective
robinet
tap (UK), faucet (US)
Noun
attendre
to wait for, to await; to expect
Verb
nourriture
food, nourishment
Noun
par
through; by (used to introduce a means; used to introduce an agent in a passive construction); over (used to express direction); from (used to describe the origin of something, especially a view or movement); around, round (inside of); on (situated on, used in certain phrases); on, at, in (used to denote a time when something occurs); in; per, a, an; out of (used to describe the reason for something); …
Preposition
autre
other; another; used to express the equivalence or resemblance between two or more things; second
Adjective
barrer
to bar, bar up (to lock or bolt with a bar); to bar off; to cross out, strike out (put written lines through written text, to show it is erroneous); to go away, to leave, to fuck off; to lock (a door etc.; not necessarily with a bar)
Verb
notre
our
Determiner
tôt
early
Adverb
cause
cause; case (a legal proceeding)
Noun
voleur
robber, thief; flier (one who flies)
Noun
plusieurs
several, many, a lot
Adjective
enfant
child (someone who is not yet an adult); child (offspring of any age); son, native (of a place)
Noun
abandonner
to give up; to abandon, forsake; to give oneself (to someone)
Verb
jeune
young; who has recently acquired a new status, who has newly become something (without being necessarily young in absolute terms)
Adjective
fille
girl; daughter; prostitute, wench
Noun
comme
as (in the role of, by way of); like, as; such as; how; because, as, since
Conjunction
domestique
domestic
Adjective
un autre
another, a different; another one, a different one
Determiner
garçon
boy; young man; man; Generic name of a male employee in some industries
Noun
promener
to walk (leisurely), to go for a walk, to stroll; to walk out (an animal); to carry around, often with the implication of showing off
Verb
autour
around
Adverb
fermer
to shut; to close; to do up (of clothing); to switch off, to turn off (of a device or an appliance); to shut down, to discontinue, to axe (of a service); to bind off (of stitches in knitting); to harden (of someone's face); to put someone off something, to turn someone off something; to mark the border of
Verb
souffler
to blow; to blow out; to whisper; to relax
Verb
déchet
refuse, rubbish, trash, waste; a mess, a basket case (especially after having drunk alcohol)
Noun
papier
paper (A material used for writing or printing on, made from cellulose pulp rolled into thin sheets); paper (official documents); article, piece (in a newspaper); paperwork
Noun
pendre
to hang; to sag, droop
Verb
arbre
tree (plant, diagram, anything in the form of a tree); axle; drive shaft
Noun
clôture
fence; hedge, wall; closing, closure (of a business, shop, argument etc.)
Noun
gens
set of people
Noun
vitre
pane of glass, window pane; window (of a vehicle); glass (substance)
Noun
briser
to break; snap; to become broken; snap
Verb
lancer
to throw; to start, to launch; to call out, yell
Verb
attention
attention (mental focus); vigilance; attention (concern for); attention (interest in); consideration, thoughtfulness
Noun
tarir
to dry up; to exhaust, use up; to talk non-stop (about something); to dwindle, to dry up, to peter out
Verb
conteneur
container (large metal box); container
Noun
vide
empty; devoid; blank (page, tape); vacant; unfurnished (apartment)
Adjective
marcher
to walk; to travel; to move; to march; to work, to function; to step; to cooperate; to believe
Verb
aux
Contraction of à + les ('to the' or 'of the')
participer
to participate; to donate; to share (emotions); to have some of the characteristics of; to partake of
Verb
réunion
meeting; set union
Noun
rassembler
to assemble; to gather, summon up (courage); to collect; to gather together, congregate
Verb
lever
to raise, lift; to rise, stand up; to rise, come up; to get up (out of bed); to clear, lift
Verb
ensemble
together
Adverb
résoudre
to resolve (to find a solution to); to resolve, to make up one's mind
Verb
âgé
old; elderly
Adjective
an
year
Noun
tronc
trunk; trunk, bole (of a tree); poor box
Noun
crier
to cry out; to shout; to creak
Verb
aider
to help; to aid; to use
Verb
nettoyer
to clean; to wipe clean
Verb
femme
woman; wife
Noun
joindre
to join; to join up; to reach, to contact
Verb
pousser
to push; to urge on, encourage; to grow; to spring up, to sprout; to utter; to move aside
Verb
creuser
to dig; to hollow out; to grow hollow
Verb
puits
well, shaft
Noun
voix
voice; vote
Noun
changer
to exchange (something); to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.); to change, alter (something en into); to change (a diaper); to change; to change (one's clothes), get changed
Verb
vie
life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death; life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death; biography, life; life, lifeforms; cost of living; way, path (road, railway, etc)
Noun
depuis
since; since, ever since; for ~; for the last ~, over the past ~; from
Preposition
parler
to speak, talk; to be able to communicate in a language; to speak; to cant; (of a coat of arms) to make a pun of its bearer's name
Verb
plante
sole of the foot; plant
Noun
nom
name; last name, family name; forms expletive interjections; noun; noun or adjective; used in nom adjectif and nom substantif
Noun
signifier
to signify, mean
Verb
celui
the one
Pronoun
langue
tongue; language (system of communication using written or spoken words)
Noun
oranger
orange tree
Noun
grandir
to grow, get bigger; to grow up; to magnify
Verb
mûr
matured, ripe (of a fruit etc, ready to eat); mature (personal characteristic); mature (having reached the age of maturity)
Adjective
chemin
path, way, road; road
Noun
herbe
grass (the plant); weed; marijuana; ganja; cannabis
Noun
devenir
to become; to come from
Verb
vert
green; green, environmentally friendly
Adjective
fleur
flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants"); flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself; a kind favor given by one person to another; the best of something; the virginity of a woman; Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation
Noun
sauvage
wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine; wild, untamed, not domesticated (often used to qualify a wild alternative or pendant for a cultivated plant or domestic animal); feral; primitive, uncivilized; coarse, unrefined; uncontained, anarchic; unregulated; unauthorized; asocial, recluse (living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others); Amerindian
Adjective
continuer
to continue
Verb
fleurir
to flower; to produce flowers; to bloom; to flourish
Verb
vous
the plural personal pronoun in the second person; you (all); you, to you (indirect object pronoun); plural or singular personal pronoun in the second person
Pronoun
porter
to carry; to support, to bear; to wear; to be about, to concern; to feel, to be in good/bad health
Verb
mes
my (when referring to a plural noun)
Determiner
au
contraction of à + le, literally “to the, for the, at the”
centre
centre, center; cross, specifically one directed into the penalty area
Noun