Vocabulary
simple
single; simple, straightforward, easy; simple, plain, unsophisticated; synthetic; non analytic; simple, uncompounded; one-way; mere
Adjective
aisé
easy to do, with ease, simple, effortless; wealthy, with no money problems, affluent, prosperous, on easy street, in easy circumstances; smooth, fluid (about a movement or a conversation); loose, big
Adjective
bouillon
broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled); bubble rising from a boiling liquid; gulp of liquid which escapes forcefully; flesh rising on a fold; risen fold of cloth; unsold copies of a publication; simple restaurant, which originally served only bouillon
Noun
pédestre
walking (of e.g. an animal, that moves by walking); representing someone walking; pedestrian (simple); walking, involving walking, on foot
Adjective
clairon
bugle (music: a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves); bugler (someone who plays the bugle); clairon (saxophone register)
Noun
filé
simple or twisted textile thread, as used for needlework; fine, equivalent precious metal thread, used in luxury production; dried and ground sassafras leaves used to spice and thicken gumbo
Noun
moulinette
moulinette; a program that performs a series of simple, repetitive calculations; top-roping
Noun
zaï
an African agricultural technique consisting of sowing in holes that naturally concentrate water and fertilizers by simple runoff
Noun
mâchon
a simple restaurant; a traditional breakfast meal of cuts of pork offal, characteristic of Lyon.; snack
Noun
avoir été bercé trop près du mur
to have been dropped on one's head as a child (to be simple-minded, to be dim-witted, to be stupid)
Verb
passé composé
a past tense in French grammar, to express a completed ('perfect') action. In English, it can either be called the perfect tense or referred to by its French name. The name 'passé composé' reflects the fact that it is a compound tense, unlike the passé simple.
Noun
con comme la lune
Very stupid; thick as two short planks; dumb as a doorknob; Extremely easy or simple; easy as pie
Adjective
passé simple
past historic tense, a tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, roughly equivalent to the simple past or preterite in English
Noun
polyrythme
polyrhythm (the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter)
Noun