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41 should
should [∫ʊd]a. ( = ought to)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• shouldn't you go and see her? est-ce que vous ne devriez pas aller la voir ?what should I do? qu'est-ce que je dois faire ?• should I go too? -- yes you should est-ce que je dois y aller aussi ? -- oui tu devraisb. (past time)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he thought I should tell her, so I'm going to il pensait que je devais lui dire, alors je vais le faire━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should have implies that something did not happen, it is translated by the conditional of avoir + dû.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should have means that something probably has happened, it is translated by the present tense of devoir.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he should have finished by now ( = probably has) il doit avoir terminé à l'heure qu'il est ; ( = but he hasn't) il aurait dû terminer à l'heure qu'il estc. ( = would)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should has conditional meaning, it is translated by the conditional of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I should go if he invited me s'il m'invitait, j'irais• we should have come if we had known si nous avions su, nous serions venus• will you come? -- I should like to est-ce que vous viendrez ? -- j'aimerais bien• why should he suspect me? pourquoi me soupçonnerait-il ?• how should I know? comment voulez-vous que je le sache ?• he's coming to apologize -- I should think so too! il vient présenter ses excuses -- j'espère bien !• and who should come in but Paul! et devinez qui est entré ? Paul bien sûr !* * *[ʃʊd, ʃəd]1) ( ought to)as it should be — ( in order) en ordre
...which is only as it should be —...ce qui est parfaitement normal
2) ( in conditional sentences)had he asked me, I should have accepted — s'il me l'avait demandé, j'aurais accepté
I don't think it will happen, but if it should... — je ne pense pas que cela arrive, mais si toutefois cela arrivait...
if you should change your mind,... — si vous changez d'avis,...
3) ( expressing purpose)4) ( in polite formulas)5) (expressing opinion, surprise)‘how long?’ - ‘an hour, I should think’ — ‘combien de temps?’ - ‘une heure, je suppose’
I should think she must be about 40 — à mon avis, elle doit avoir 40 ans environ
and then what should happen, but it began to rain! — et devine quoi - il s'est mis à pleuvoir!
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42 before
before [bɪˈfɔ:r]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. prepositionb. (place, position) devant• to appear before a court/a judge comparaître devant un tribunal/un juge2. adverb• I said before that... j'ai déjà dit que...3. conjunction• before I come/go/return avant mon arrivée/mon départ/mon retour* * *[bɪ'fɔː(r)] 1.1) ( earlier than) avantsix weeks before then — six semaines avant or auparavant
2) (in order, sequence) avant3) (in importance, priority) avantfor him, work comes before everything else — pour lui le travail passe avant tout
4) ( this side of) avant5) US ( in time expressions)6) ( in front of) devant7) ( confronting) face à2.adjective précédent3.the week/year before — la semaine/l'année précédente
adverb ( at an earlier time) avant4.1) ( in time)before I go, I would like to say that — avant de partir, je voudrais dire que
before he goes, I must remind him that — avant qu'il parte, il faut que je lui rappelle que
it was some time before she was able to walk again — il lui a fallu un certain temps pour pouvoir marcher de nouveau
oh, before I forget... — avant que j'oublie...
2) ( rather than) plutôt que3) ( or else)4) ( as necessary condition) pour que (+ subj)you have to show your ticket before they'll let you in — il faut que tu montres ton ticket pour qu'ils te laissent entrer
••before you know where you are... — on n'a pas le temps de dire ouf que...
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