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  • 1 Games and sports

    With or without the definite article?
    French normally uses the definite article with names of games and sports:
    football
    = le football
    bridge
    = le bridge
    chess
    = les échecs mpl
    marbles
    = les billes fpl
    cops and robbers
    = les gendarmes et les voleurs
    to play football
    = jouer au football
    to play bridge
    = jouer au bridge
    to play chess
    = jouer aux échecs
    to play marbles or at marbles
    = jouer aux billes
    to play cops and robbers or at cops and robbers
    = jouer aux gendarmes et aux voleurs
    to like football
    = aimer le football
    to like chess
    = aimer les échecs
    But most compound nouns (e.g. saute-mouton, colin-maillard, pigeon vole) work like this:
    hide-and-seek
    = cache-cache m
    to play at hide-and-seek
    = jouer à cache-cache
    to like hide-and-seek
    = aimer jouer à cache-cache
    Names of other ‘official’ games and sports follow the same pattern as bridge in the following phrases:
    to play bridge with X against Y
    = jouer au bridge avec X contre Y
    to beat sb at bridge
    = battre qn au bridge
    to win at bridge
    = gagner au bridge
    to lose at bridge
    = perdre au bridge
    she’s good at bridge
    = elle joue bien au bridge
    a bridge club
    = un club de bridge
    Players and events
    a bridge player
    = un joueur de bridge
    but
    I’m not a bridge player
    = je ne joue pas au bridge
    he’s a good bridge player
    = il joue bien au bridge
    a game of bridge
    = une partie de bridge
    a bridge champion
    = un champion de bridge
    the French bridge champion
    = le champion de France de bridge
    a bridge championship
    = un championnat de bridge
    to win the French championship
    = gagner le championnat de France
    the rules of bridge
    = les règles du bridge
    Playing cards
    The names of the four suits work like club here:
    clubs
    = les trèfles mpl
    to play a club
    = jouer un trèfle
    a high/low club
    = un gros/petit trèfle
    the eight of clubs
    = le huit de trèfle
    the ace of clubs
    = l’as de trèfle
    I’ve no clubs left
    = je n’ai plus de trèfle
    have you any clubs?
    = as-tu du trèfle?
    clubs are trumps
    = l’atout est trèfle
    to call two clubs
    = demander deux trèfles
    Other games’ vocabulary can be found in the dictionary at match, game, set, trick etc.

    Big English-French dictionary > Games and sports

  • 2 marble

    A n
    1 ( stone) marbre m ; made of marble en marbre ;
    2 Games ( glass) bille f ;
    3 Art ( sculpture) marbre m ;
    4 marbles ⇒ Games and sports ( game) (+ v sg) billes fpl ; to play ou shoot marbles US jouer aux billes.
    B modif [object] de marbre.
    to lose one's marbles ○ perdre la boule ○ ; she still has all her marbles ○ elle garde toute sa tête.

    Big English-French dictionary > marble

  • 3 marble

    marble ['mɑ:bəl]
    1 noun
    (a) (stone, sculpture) marbre m
    (b) (for game) bille f;
    ∎ to play marbles jouer aux billes;
    ∎ familiar figurative she's still got all her marbles elle a encore toute sa tête
    (fireplace, staircase, statue) de ou en marbre; (industry) marbrier
    marbrer
    ►► Marble Arch = grande arche monumentale dans le centre de Londres;
    marble cake gâteau m marbré;
    marble cutter (person) marbrier m;
    marble quarry marbrière f, carrière f de marbre

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > marble

См. также в других словарях:

  • marbles — n. 1) to play marbles 2) a game of marbles 3) (misc.) (colloq.) to lose one s marbles ( to lose one s mind ) * * * a game of marbles to play marbles (misc.) (colloq.) to lose one s marbles ( to lose one s mind ) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • marbles — n. A children s game played with marbles[3], little balls made of a hard substance (as glass). [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • marbles — children s game, from plural of MARBLE (Cf. marble); first recorded by that name in 1709 but probably older (it was known in 13c. German as tribekugeln) and originally played with small balls of polished marble or alabaster, later clay; the… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • Game no Kandume Volume 1 — Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 Éditeur Sega Date de sortie 1994 Genre Mini jeux Plate forme Mega CD Contrôle Manette Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 — Éditeur Sega Date de sortie 1994 Genre Mini jeux Plate forme Mega CD Contrôle Manette Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 (ゲームのかんづめ …   Wikipédia en Français

  • marbles —    The early history of marbles is still obscure. Certainly, in the ancient world children played games rolling nuts, and coloured clay balls have been found in Egyptian tombs, but it is not known for sure what they were used for. It seems… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

  • marbles — noun 1. a children s game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass) (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑child s game 2. the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception he used his wits to get ahead I was scared out of my wits… …   Useful english dictionary

  • marbles — noun a) Any of several childrens games played with small glass balls. Egyptian boys played marbles<!no bold:the game before the days of Moses, and marbles are among the treasures found buried in the ruins of Pompeii.<!from Google Books b)… …   Wiktionary

  • game — I [[t]geɪm[/t]] n. adj. gam•er, gam•est, 1) gam an amusement or pastime: children s games, such as hopscotch and marbles; a card game[/ex] 2) gam the material or equipment used in playing certain games 3) gam a competitive activity involving… …   From formal English to slang

  • game — Synonyms and related words: Animalia, Boston, Byzantine intrigues, Earl of Coventry, Monopoly, Olympic games, Olympics, Ping Pong, Pit, Polish bank, Rugby, Russian bank, Scrabble, acquiescent, action, adventurous, agreeable, aim, alacritous, all… …   Moby Thesaurus

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