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1 generally
generally ['dʒenərəlɪ]∎ he generally comes in the afternoon d'habitude, il vient l'après-midi(b) (in a general way) en général, de façon générale;∎ generally speaking en général, en règle générale∎ it is generally agreed that it cannot be done on s'accorde en général à penser que c'est infaisable;∎ this information is not generally available le public n'a pas accès à ces informations;∎ it is not generally known that… beaucoup de gens ignorent que… -
2 commonly
commonly [ˈkɒmənlɪ]a. [use, occur, prescribe] fréquemment ; [called] couramment• more commonly known as... plus connu sous le nom de...b. ( = generally) généralement• it is commonly believed that... on croit généralement que...* * *['kɒmənlɪ]adverb communément -
3 for
for [fɔ:r]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When for is an element in a phrasal verb, eg look for, stand for, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg for sale, noted for, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. pour• what's this knife for? à quoi sert ce couteau ?b. ( = going to) pourc. ( = on behalf of) for me/you à ma/ta place• will you go for me? est-ce que vous pouvez y aller à ma place ?d. ( = as in) commee. ( = in exchange for) I'll give you this book for that one je vous échange ce livre contre celui-là• he'll do it for $25 il le fera pour 25 dollars━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to pay $5 for a ticket payer un billet 5 dollars• I sold it for $20 je l'ai vendu 20 dollarsf. ( = because of) pourg. ( = from) deh. ( = up to) ài. ( = in spite of) malgréj. ( = for a distance of) sur━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► With certain verbs pendant may be omitted.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I worked/stayed there for three months j'y ai travaillé/j'y suis resté (pendant) trois mois━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French generally uses the present and imperfect where English uses the perfect and past perfect.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I have been working here for three months je travaille ici depuis trois mois ça fait trois mois que je travaille ici• I had been working there for three months when... je travaillais là depuis trois mois quand...• he hasn't worked for two years il n'a pas travaillé depuis deux ans ça fait deux ans qu'il ne travaille pas• she hadn't seen him for three months elle ne l'avait pas vu depuis trois mois cela faisait trois mois qu'elle ne l'avait pas vu* * *[fə(r), fɔː(r)] 1.1) ( intended to be used or belong to) pourto buy something for somebody — acheter quelque chose pour or à quelqu'un
2) ( intended to help or benefit) pour3) ( indicating purpose) pourwhat's it for? — c'est pour quoi faire?, ça sert à quoi?
‘I need it’ - ‘what for?’ — ‘j'en ai besoin’ - ‘pourquoi?’
the idea was for you to work it out yourself — le but était que tu trouves (subj) la réponse tout seul
4) (as member, employee of) [work, play] pour; ( as representative) [MP, Minister] de5) ( indicating cause or reason) pourfor this reason, I'd rather... — pour cette raison je préfère...
if it weren't for her... — sans elle...
6) ( indicating consequence) pour que (+ subj)7) ( indicating person's attitude) pour8) ( stressing particular feature) pourfor further information write to... — pour plus de renseignements écrivez à...
9) ( considering) pour10) ( towards) pour11) ( on behalf of) pour12) ( as regards)13) ( taking account of past events) depuis; ( stressing expected duration) pour; ( stressing actual duration) pendantthis is the best show I've seen for years — c'est le meilleur spectacle que j'aie vu depuis des années
14) ( indicating a deadline) pour; ( in negative constructions) avant15) ( on the occasion of) pour16) ( indicating scheduled time) pour17) ( indicating distance) pendant18) ( indicating destination) pour19) (indicating cost, value) pourit was sold for £100 — ça s'est vendu (pour) 100 livres sterling
I'll let you have it for £20 — je vous le laisse à 20 livres sterling
a cheque for £20 — un chèque de 20 livres sterling
20) ( in favour of)21) ( stressing appropriateness)22) ( in support of) en faveur de23) ( indicating availability)24) ( as part of ratio) pour25) ( equivalent to)what's the French for ‘boot’? — comment dit-on ‘boot’ en français?
the technical term for it is ‘chloasma’ — ‘chloasme’ c'est le terme technique
26) ( in explanations)for one thing... and for another... — premièrement... et deuxièmement...
I, for one, agree with her — en tout cas moi, je suis d'accord avec elle
27) ( when introducing clauses)2.conjunction sout car, parce que••I'll be (in) for it if... — (colloq) GB ça va être ma fête si... (colloq)
that's adolescents for you! — que voulez-vous, c'est ça les adolescents!
there's gratitude for you! — c'est comme ça qu'on me/vous etc remercie!
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4 widely
widely [ˈwaɪdlɪ]• it is widely believed that... on pense généralement que...b. ( = much) [travel] beaucoup• to be widely read [reader] avoir beaucoup lu* * *['waɪdlɪ]1) ( commonly) largementa country widely admired for its technology — un pays qui fait l'admiration générale pour sa technologie
to be widely available — [product] être en vente libre
to be widely known — être bien connu ( for pour)
2) [spaced] à de grands intervalles; [travel, differ] beaucoup -
5 speak
[spi:k]past tense - spoke; verb1) (to say (words) or talk: He can't speak; He spoke a few words to us.) parler2) ((often with to or (American) with) to talk or converse: Can I speak to/with you for a moment?; We spoke for hours about it.) parler (à, avec)3) (to (be able to) talk in (a language): She speaks Russian.) parler4) (to tell or make known (one's thoughts, the truth etc): I always speak my mind.) dire5) (to make a speech, address an audience: The Prime Minister spoke on unemployment.) parler (de)•- speaker- speaking - spoken - - spoken - generally speaking - speak for itself/themselves - speak out - speak up - to speak of
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