| 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 |
| deux |
| 1. num. two |
| parties |
| 1. Participle. feminine plural of parti |
| 2. n. plural of partie |
| 3. n. (anatomy) genitals |
| partir |
| 1. v. (obsolete, transitive) to share, to share out, to divide |
| 2. v. to go away, leave, depart |
| 3. v. to originate |
| 4. v. to die |
| 5. v. to emanate |
| 6. v. (Quebec, informal, transitive) to start |
| partie |
| 1. n-f. part (portion, amount) |
| 2. n-f. (legal) party |
| 3. n-f. game, play (sense "the conduct, or course of a game") |
| 4. n-f. (math) subset |
| 5. Participle. feminine singular of parti |
| principales |
| 1. adj. feminine plural of principal |
| principal |
| 1. adj. main, key, principal |
| 2. n-m. someone or something which is important, key, paramount |
| 3. n-m. principal (school administrator) |
| 4. n-m. (finance) principal (the money originally invested or loaned) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| truc |
| 1. n-m. procedure, technique |
| 2. n-m. (slang) thingamajig, thingy, thing |
| 3. n-m. trick |
