Vocabulary
y
there (at a place); there, thither (to there); Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à.; With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.; With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
Pronoun
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
lambda
price elasticity of an option in relation to that of its holder; the most ordinary member of a group; a former unit of capacity or volume equivalent to a microliter, whose symbol is λ; a level of intensity equivalent to forty decibels above the threshold for hearing a sound with a frequency of one kilohertz; Silver Y (moth)
Noun
y a-t-il
subject-inverted form of il y a; is there? are there?, (after a modal adverb) there is, there are
Verb
allons-y
first-person plural imperative of y aller; let's go; let's go there; come with me, follow me
Phrase
yaourt
yoghurt; a song where the singer makes up the words as they're singing, either as dummy lyrics as part of the songwriting process, or because the singer doesn't know the real lyrics of an existing song; used primarily with a verb: chanter en yaourt
Noun
yankee
Yankee; an Anglo-American, as opposed to someone with French ancestry; resident or native of the rest of the United States
Adjective