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7.5: Vocabulaire

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    Vocabulaire

    NOMS

    un besoin* need
    une boutique shop (small, expensive, chic)
    le chaud* heat
    un étage floor, story
    la faim* hunger
    le froid* cold
    une gare station
    un genre kind, type, genre
    une impression impression
    un journal newspaper, diary
    un magasin store
    le mal* evil
    un musée museum
    un parapluie umbrella
    un pull pullover, sweater
    la raison* right, reason
    la soif* thirst
    le sommeil* sleepiness
    une tête head
    le tort* wrong
    la vérité truth

    * Ail these words are nouns, but they occur most frequently in idiomatic constructions with avoir, as given in Questions et réponses, A.

    VERBES

    dire to say, tell
    préférer to prefer
    revenir to come back
    travailler to work
    visiter to visit (a museum, a city)
    rendre visite à quelqu'un to visit someone

    ADJECTIFS

    assis seated
    cher, -ère expensive, dear
    excellent excellent
    fantastique fantastic
    fabuleux, - euse fabulous
    gros, grosse big, fat
    incroyable unbelievable, incredible
    intime intimate, personal, private
    pauvre poor

    See also the list with Exercice V.

    ADVERBES

    alors then, next
    à midi at noon
    aussi as
    mieux better
    moins less
    plus more
    pourquoi why

    PREPOSITIONS

    près de near

    MISCELLANEA

    au revoir good-bye, farewell
    n'importe no matter

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