Vocabulary
de
from (used to indicate origin); of (indicates possession, association or relationship); of (used to indicate cause); of (indicates an amount); used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word; from (used to indicate the start of a time or range); by (an amount); introduces the indirect object of some verbs; variously translated in English; used before infinitive phrases; often corresponding to an English to-infinitive or gerund; after certain verbs; …
Preposition
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
dernier
last; latest (most recent); latter (usually preceded by the determiner ce); see: ce dernier
Adjective
liberté
liberty, freedom. 1688, Guy Miège, The Great French Dictionary. "Qu'y a-t-il de plus doux dans ce monde que la liberté? What is there sweeter in this world than liberty?"
Noun
office
charge, task, mandate; administrative bureau, department; religious service, notably liturgical office. 1886, Cora Pearl, Mémoires, ch 3. "Ce qu'il en coute d'aller seule à l'office." "What it costs to go alone to church."; pantry, room adjoining a kitchen where dishes, table linens, and provisions are kept; place where a household's table (food and drink)-related services are conducted, especially by domestic staff
Noun
veiller
to stay up, sit up; to keep guard, keep watch; to look after, see to ( + à); see to it that ( + à ce que); to watch over (someone) ( + sur); to keep watch over a sick person at night; to do a death wake for; to go out in the evening, e.g. in parties, clubs, bars…; to put in standby mode
Verb
croquant
biscotto; antihelix (cartilage of the ear); cartilage; gristle; A participant in a series of jacqueries or peasants' revolts in the South of France during the late 16th and early 17th centuries CE.; beggar
Noun
kess
contraction of qu'est-ce que
quessé
contraction of qu'est-ce que c'est? (“what is it?”)
-ci
Used with the demonstrative ce and all its forms in order to specify the meaning “this, these”.
Particle
Nicée
Nicaea (former name of Iznik: a town in Bursa Province, Turkey, famed for the 325 CE church council that composed the Nicene Creed); Nicaea (former name of Nice: a city in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Name
Théodoriade
Theodorias (a Byzantine province on the coast of modern-day Syria, established in the 6th century CE by Emperor Justinian I, named in honor of his wife Theodora)
Name
Damas
Damascus (the capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE)
Name
paix romaine
Pax Romana (the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BCE and 180 CE)
Noun
Scythie
Scythia (a geographic region encompassing the Pontic-Caspian steppe in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, inhabited by nomadic Scythians from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE)
Name
kissé
contraction of qui est-ce que
⠉
The independent word ce.
Asturies
Asturias (an autonomous community and province of Spain, on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea); Asturias (a former kingdom existing from c. 718 to 924 CE, in modern northwest Spain and Portugal)
Name
quossé
contraction of qu'est-ce que c'est? (“what is it?”)
certain
certain, guaranteed (sure, positive); certain (specified, particular); certain (of indefinite, unknown or simply unmentioned identity, quality or quantity) (prepositive to the noun it modifies, and usually preceded by an indefinite article)
Adjective
certainement
certainly (with certainty, without doubt); probably (very likely, although not entirely sure)
Adverb