1 être Verb (a) (with description, opinion) to be; je suis grand I'm tall; elle est grande she's tall; elle est grande, ta voiture, (Infml) c'est grand, ta voiture it's a big car you've got, your car's (pretty) big
(b) (describing location) to be; (of person: more permanently) to be, live, be based; Paris est tout près d'ici Paris is really close by; je ne suis pas là lundi I'm not here on Monday; je suis à Paris en ce moment I'm in Paris at the moment; je suis à Paris maintenant I'm (based) in Paris now, I live in Paris now, I've moved to Paris
(c) (with professions: often used without article in French) to be; je suis professeur I'm a teacher; il est programmeur he's a programmer; il veut ~ programmeur he wants to be a programmer; c'est un très bon programmeur he's a very good programmer; vous êtes (un) programmeur aussi? are you a programmer too (or) as well?
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2 être Verb, intransitive (a) (usually literary: in sense of exist) to be; je pense donc je suis I think therefore I am; il n'est plus he is no more; il était une fois une princesse once upon a time, there was a princess; que la lumière soit let there be light
3 être Verb (a) (with compound tenses of certain verbs) être allé/venu to have been/come; je suis allé à Paris l'an dernier I went to Paris last year; je suis né en 1976 I was born in 1976
(b) (with passive) to be; ~ fabriqué aux États-Unis to be manufactured in the US; je ne suis pas persuadé par son point de vue I am not convinced by his point of view; il a été blessé dans un accident de voiture he's been injured in a car crash; j'ai été très choqué par ses remarques I was very shocked by his remarks
(b) (more fig) person, human being; les ~s qui nous sont chers our loved ones
(c) (fig) heart, soul; aimer qn de tout son ~ to love sb with all one's heart
(d) (Philosophy) l'~ being; l'~ et le néant being and nothingness; l'Être suprême the Supreme Being
1 avoir Verb, transitive (a) to have (slightly frm), have got possessions; il a deux voitures he's got two cars; est-ce que tu as des frères et soeurs? have you got any brothers and sisters?; il n'a pas d'argent he hasn't got any money; il a de jolis cheveux he's got nice hair
(b) (descriptive construction) il a les cheveux blonds he's got blond hair; il a les yeux tous jolis he's got really nice eyes
(c) (at particular moment) to get a score; il a de bonnes notes he's got good marks; j'ai eu 10 en histoire i got 10 (out of 20) for history, =i got a C for history
(d) (Infml: with trick) to get, trick, catch somebody out, swizz (Slang, humorous); on m'a eu I've been had (or) done (or) swizzed
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2 avoir Verb (a) to have sympathy, feel sympathy, hatred, cold, hunger; ~ faim/soif to be (or) feel hungry/thirsty; (Infml) ~ une faim de loup to be starving (or) famished; ~ chaud/froid to be hot/cold; ~ bien faim, (Infml) ~ très faim to be really hungry; je n'ai pas très faim I'm not very hungry; j'ai un peu trop froid I'm a bit too cold; (See: courage), (See: raison), (See: tort) (etc)
(b) (in forming compounnd tenses) j'ai mangé I ate; I've eaten; I've been eating; il avait trop mangé/bu he'd had too much to eat/drink
(c) (existence) y ~ to be; il y a, (Infml) y a there's, there is (frm) ( singular); there are, there's (Infml) ( plural); (il) y a du pain dans le frigo there's some bread in the fridge; (il) y a du pain dans le frigo? is there any bread in the fridge?; (Infml) y a quelque chose à la télé ce soir? is there anything on telly this evening?; il y a des pommes si tu en veux there are some apples if you want some (or) any; (Infml) y a des pommes si t'en veux there's some apples if you want some (or) any; il n'y a pas de pain there isn't any bread; (Infml) y a pas de pain there's no bread; il n'y a plus de pain there isn't any bread left; (Infml) y a plus de pain there's no bread left; il n'y avait plus de pain there was no bread left; il y avait/aura moi, toi et Danielle there was/there'll be me, you and Danielle; il y a eu de la pluie pendant la nuit it rained during the night, there was some rain during the night; il doit y ~ un couteau quelque part there must be a knife somewhere; qu'est qu'il y a? what's wrong?, what's up? (Infml); qu'est qu'il y avait? what was wrong?, what was up? (Infml)
3 avoir Verb, transitive (a) (in time) il y a trois ans three years ago; je suis allé en Autriche il y a deux semaines I went to Austria two weeks ago; il y a quatre semaines qu'il prend le bus pour aller à l'école he's been getting the bus to school for four weeks now; il y a trois mois qu'il ne mange plus de pâtes he hasn't been eating pasta for three months now, it's been three months since he last ate pasta (or) since he stopped eating pasta; il y aura un mois demain que je ne fume plus de cigarettes it'll be a month tomorrow since I stopped smoking; il y avait deux semaines hier que je ne fume qu'une cigarette par jourit was two weeks yesterday since I started smoking one cigarette a day,it was two weeks yesterday that I cut back to one cigarette a day
1 aller Noun, masculine (a) outward journey; ~ (simple) single ticket; ~ (et) retour return (ticket, journey)
2 aller Verb, intransitive (a) (of person, street) to go (à, en, to, vers, towards); ~ à Paris en voiture/à velo to drive/ride to Paris; ~ à to suit somebody
(b) ~ bien (of person) to be well, be OK, (of business) be going well, be going OK; ~ mal (of person) to be unwell, be suffering, (of business) be going badly, be having problems; comment vas-tu?, comment allez-vous? how are you?; (quite Infml) ça va? how are things?, how's things? (more Infml), how's it going? (Infml), how's life?; je vais bien I'm fine; ça va? - ça va how are things? - not too bad; (Infml) ça va, ça vient so-so; (Infml) "on fait ~" "shouldn't complain"; (Infml) je n'irais pas jusqu'à dire que... I woulddn't go as far as saying that...; (Infml) je n'irais pas jusque là I wouldn't go that far
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1 venir Verb, intransitive (a) to come; faire ~ to send for, call for
(b) ~ de faire to have just done; je viens de le voir I've just seen him
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1 pouvoir Verb, transitive (a) to be able to; je peux, je puis (frm) I can; I may (frm), I can, I am allowed to; je pourrais I could, I might, I may; je pouvais I was able to, I could
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2 se pouvoir Verb, pronominal (a) il se peut que it may be that
1 vouloir Verb, transitive (a) to want (de, from); ~ faire to want to do; ~ que qn fasse to want sb to do; to expect sb to do; ~ dire to mean
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