en |
1. prep. in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes) |
2. prep. to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes) |
3. prep. by (used to indicate means) |
4. prep. as |
5. prep. at (used to describe an ability) |
6. prep. of, made of (used to describe composition) |
7. prep. in (during the following time (used for months and years)) |
8. prep. (followed by a gerund) while |
9. prep. (followed by a gerund) by, in describing a way of getting something |
10. prep. in (used to describe color) |
11. prep. in (used to describe feelings) |
12. prep. in (as part of something) |
13. pron. (Used as the object of a verb to indicate an indefinite quantity; of it, of them. Replaces the partitive article (du, de la, etc.)) |
14. pron. Adverbial preposition indicating movement away from a place already mentioned; from there, from it. Replaces the phrase de là or d’ici. |
ce |
1. det. this, that |
2. pron. (subject of être, with predicative adjectives or relative clauses, singular only) it, this, that (see § Usage notes, below) |
3. pron. (subject of être, with predicate nouns) he, she, it, this, that |
qui |
1. pron. (interrogative) who, whom |
2. pron. (relative) who, whom (after a preposition), which, that |
3. conj. (Louisiana French, Cajun French) if |
ce qui |
1. pron. (nominative, relative) what (that which; those which; the thing that) |
2. pron. (nominative, interrogative) what (in indirect questions, subject) |
me |
1. pron. (direct object) me |
2. pron. (indirect object) to me |
concerne |
1. v. first-person singular present of concerner |
2. v. third-person singular present of concerner |
3. v. second-person singular imperative of concerner |
concerner |
1. v. to concern (be concerned with, be associated with) |
il |
1. pron. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject) |
2. pron. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects) |
3. pron. (impersonal pronoun) Impersonal subject; it |
y |
1. pron. there (at a place) |
2. pron. there, thither (to there) |
3. pron. Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à. |
4. pron. With verbs: see for verbs which use this structure. |
5. pron. 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. |
6. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) he: Alternative form of il |
7. pron. (Quebec, France, colloquial) they: Alternative form of ils |
8. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) they: Alternative form of elles |
a |
1. n. a, the name of the Latin-script letter A |
2. pron. (Quebec, colloquial) alt form-lite, elle, , she |
3. v. third-person singular present indicative of avoir |
avoir |
1. n-m. asset, possession |
2. v. to have (to own; to possess) |
3. v. (auxiliary) to have (auxiliary verb to form compound past tenses of most verbs) |
4. v. to have (a condition) |
5. v. to have (a measure or age) |
6. v. to have (to trick) |
7. v. to have (to participate in an experience) |
8. v. (indtr, à) to have (to), must +preo, à, infinitive |
il y a |
1. v. singular present indicative of y avoir: there is, there are |
2. prep. ago |
y a |
1. v. (colloquial)contraction of il y a |
y avoir |
1. v. (impersonal, transitive) there be |
plein |
1. adj. full, full up |
2. adj. plenty |
3. adj. solid |
4. adj. (astronomy, of a moon) full |
5. adj. (preceded by en) mid-; middle |
6. adj. (biology, of an animal) pregnant |
7. adv. (of the four cardinal points) due |
8. adv. (colloquial) a lot, lots of, many |
9. n-m. full tank (of gas) |
10. n-m. downstroke (of a letter) |
11. prep. (somewhat colloquial) in; all over; filling |
de |
1. prep. of (expresses belonging) |
2. prep. of (used to express property or association) |
3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) |
4. prep. of (indicates an amount) |
5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word |
6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) |
7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive |
8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) |
9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. |
10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. |
11. n-f. abbreviation of dame |
travail |
1. n-m. work; labor |
2. n-m. job |
3. n-m. workplace |