Words 401–500
camp
camp (outdoor area for tents, etc.); camp (area for politically motivated confinement); camp (military base); camp (faction, school of thought); camp (holiday camp); campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style
Noun
ombre
shade, shadow; darkness; ghost; a fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus
Noun
retourner
to turn over; to turn upside-down; to turn over; to flip; turn over (earth, soil); to toss (salad); to return; to send back (an object); to return; to go back (to/from a place); to return; to revert [with à] (to a state etc.); to turn over; to overturn; to capsize; to turn round (turn one's head); to be reversed; to be turned round (of a situation etc.); to get organised; to manage; to cope; to find a way
Verb
chez
to, at, in or into the place of; by extension, to, at or in the country of; in; among (a group of things or people of the same type); in the work of (an author or artist)
Preposition
moi
me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun); me (first-person singular object pronoun of imperative verbs)
Pronoun
laisser
to leave, to leave behind; to forget, to leave alone; to leave with, to give; to let, to allow; to allow oneself, to let oneself
Verb
rappeler
to call again; to call back; to remind; to recall, remember (use without de is formal and rare; use with de much more common but still proscribed); To request or order the return of (a faulty product).; to pull through (a rope)
Verb
souhaiter
to wish (for); to hope (for); to wish someone well, particularly in a complimentary or polite way; to desire someone's presence
Verb
attacher
to affix, bind, tie something to something else, especially with rope; to attach (durably bind, tie via links of emotional or physical dependence); to become attached, become fond of (grow emotionally bound to); to attach, attribute (a certain quality or value to); to exert oneself, to make an effort, to make a commitment
Verb
boucler
to buckle (to fasten); to curl (make curly); to tie up, to finish up (e.g. an affair or case); to shut; to curl up (become curly)
Verb
assurer
to assure, to ensure, to make sure; to do; to take care of; to carry out; to be in charge of; to insure, to give insurance to; to belay
Verb
connaître
to know (of), to be familiar with (a person, place, fact, event); to know, to experience (glory, hunger, problems etc.); to know (sexually); to be knowledgeable (en about); to hear or examine judicially; to judge or decide judicially
Verb
classe
class, type, group; class, cohort (all the recruits conscripted in a particular year); a period of military training; class
Noun
rivière
a river (a large, winding stream that flows into a lake, bay, larger river, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)
Noun
là
referring to physical place; there; here; present (used with être); referring to an abstract destination or goal; there; used to emphasize a statement or question
Adverb
piétiner
to stomp (make loud sounds by stepping); to shuffle (move forwards with short steps and with difficulty); to make no headway, to go into a dead end; to trample (underfoot)
Verb
ça
that (distal demonstrative pronoun); this (proximal demonstrative pronoun); it (alternative form of ce as a subject of être in tenses other than the present and imperfect indicative); it, that, they, them (reduplicated pronoun referring to an indefinite or generic noun phrase); it (dummy pronoun); used to indicate actions happening generally without specifying an agent, like on but with a greater suggestion of mass, generalized, unattributable, or confused action; people; creates isolated emphatic forms of the interrogatives qui, où, quand, comment and pourquoi; he, she, it (third-person singular subject pronoun); him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun); they (third-person plural subject pronoun); …
Pronoun
sortir
to exit, go out, come out; to take out, bring out; to have or take; to organise; put by sort
Verb
enflammer
to set fire to, to set on fire; to inflame, to fuel (e.g. a debate, hatred); to catch fire
Verb
mettre
to put; to place; to put on; to set; to start (something / doing something); to get around to it; to penetrate
Verb
éloigner
to remove; to distance, to draw or pull away from; to distance oneself, to pull oneself away from
Verb
benjamin
youngest child (in a family); child loved disproportionally more by the parents in a family; One of the age classes for children; varies by sport; a three-letter addition to the beginning of a word that creates another valid word, especially one that reaches a "triple word score" square
Noun
emmener
to take off, take away or out; to take (someone) along somewhere, to take (something) with (someone)
Verb
sauver
to save, rescue; to protect; to save; to escape, run away; to save (conserve, prevent the wasting of)
Verb
rester
to stay; to remain, be left over; to stay, to remain (to continue to have a particular quality); to rest; to live
Verb
jusqu'au
jusque + au
revenir
to come back, to return; to grow back; to recur, to be mentioned repeatedly; to come to mind, to be remembered; to recant, to go back on; to brown; to go to as what is due; to come to be responsible
Verb
relever
to stand up (again); to stand, to right (a vehicle etc.); to help (someone) to their feet; to help up; to pull up (socks etc.); to lift, raise (skirt etc.); to put up (hair); to heighten, raise, lift (up); to increase; to restore, rebuild; to season (food); to take down, note, copy out; to react to, answer, respond to; to ride up (of clothes); …
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