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1 emphasis
(a) (importance) accent m;∎ to place or to lay or to put emphasis on sth mettre l'accent sur qch;∎ there is too much emphasis on materialism in our society on accorde trop d'importance aux choses matérielles dans notre société;∎ this year the emphasis is on bright colours/steady growth cette année, l'accent est mis sur les couleurs vives/sur une croissance régulière;∎ a change of emphasis un changement de priorités;∎ the emphasis now is on winning votes ce qui est important maintenant c'est de gagner des voix∎ the emphasis comes on the last syllable l'accent est placé ou tombe sur la dernière syllabe;∎ to say sth with emphasis dire qch avec emphase ou emphatiquement;∎ he waved his arms around for emphasis il faisait de grands gestes pour ponctuer son discours;∎ the word is only used in the sentence for emphasis dans la phrase, le mot n'a qu'une valeur intensive -
2 on earth
(used for emphasis: What on earth are you doing?; the stupidest man on earth.) diable, du/au monde -
3 what in the world(?)
(used for emphasis when asking a question: What in the world have you done to your hair?) que diable -
4 what in the world(?)
(used for emphasis when asking a question: What in the world have you done to your hair?) que diable -
5 do
I.do1 [du:]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━4. noun5. plural noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► There is no equivalent in French to the use of do in questions, negative statements and negative commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• do you understand? (est-ce que) vous comprenez ?• didn't you like it? tu n'as pas aimé ça ?• don't worry! ne t'en fais pas !• you know him, don't you? vous le connaissez, n'est-ce pas ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The tag is sometimes not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he didn't go, did he? il n'y est pas allé(, n'est-ce pas) ?• (so) you know him, do you? alors comme ça vous le connaissez ?• she said that, did she? ah oui ? elle a dit ça ?c. (in tag responses) they speak French -- oh, do they? ils parlent français -- ah oui ?• he wanted £1,000 for it -- did he really? il en demandait 1 000 livres -- vraiment ?• who broke the mirror? -- I did qui a cassé la glace ? -- moi• may I come in? -- please do! puis-je entrer ? -- je t'en prie !• shall I ring her again? -- no, don't! est-ce que je la rappelle ? -- surtout pas !• I'll tell him -- don't! je vais le lui dire -- surtout pas !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• do you see them often? -- yes, I do vous les voyez souvent ? -- oui• did you see him? -- no I didn't est-ce que tu l'as vu ? -- nond. (substitute for another verb) he's always saying he'll stop smoking, but he never does il dit toujours qu'il va s'arrêter de fumer mais il ne le fait pas• I like this colour, don't you? j'aime bien cette couleur, pas toi ?e. (encouraging) DO come! venez donc !• DO tell him that... dites-lui bien que...• but I DO like pasta! mais si j'aime bien les pâtes !• I am sure he never said that -- he DID say it je suis sûr qu'il n'a jamais dit ça -- je t'assure que si !• so you DO know them! alors comme ça tu les connais !a. faire• what are you doing in the bathroom? qu'est-ce que tu fais dans la salle de bains ?• what do you do for a living? que faites-vous dans la vie ?• the car was doing 100mph la voiture faisait du 160 km/h• now you've done it! c'est malin !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Some do + noun combinations require a more specific French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = finish) to get done with sth en finir avec qchc. ( = cook) faire ; ( = peel) éplucher• how do you like your steak done? comment voulez-vous votre bifteck ?e. ( = suffice) aller à• will a kilo do you? un kilo, ça ira ?► to do + preposition• what are we going to do for money? comment allons-nous faire pour trouver de l'argent ?• what can I do for you? qu'est-ce que je peux faire pour vous ?• could you do something for me? est-ce que tu peux me rendre un service ?• what are you doing to that poor cat? qu'est-ce que tu es en train de faire à ce pauvre chat ?• what have you done with my gloves? qu'as-tu fait de mes gants ?• what am I going to do with you? qu'est-ce que je vais bien pouvoir faire de toi ?a. ( = act) faire• could you lend me £50? -- nothing doing! (inf) tu pourrais me prêter 50 livres ? -- pas question !• how are you doing? comment ça va ?• how's he doing? comment va-t-il ?• how do you do? (on being introduced) enchanté (de faire votre connaissance)c. ( = finish) terminer• have you done? vous avez terminé ?• have you done with that book? vous n'avez plus besoin de ce livre ?d. ( = suit) aller• that will never do! il n'en est pas question !• it doesn't do to tell him what you think of him ce n'est pas une bonne idée de lui dire ce qu'on pense de luie. ( = be sufficient) suffire• can you lend me some money? -- will £10 do? peux-tu me prêter de l'argent ? -- dix livres, ça ira ?• that will do! ça ira !f. ► to have to do with ( = be connected with)what has that got to do with it? qu'est-ce que ça a à voir ?• they say crime has nothing to do with unemployment ils prétendent que la criminalité n'a rien à voir avec le chômage• that has nothing to do with it! cela n'a aucun rapport !• that's got a lot to do with it! ça y est pour beaucoup !• that has nothing to do with you! ça ne vous regarde pas !4. noun• they had a big do for their twenty-fifth anniversary ils ont fait une grande fête pour leur vingt-cinquième anniversaire de mariage5. plural nouna. ( = get rid of) [+ law, controls] abolir ; [+ nuclear weapons] démanteler ; [+ subsidies] supprimer ; [+ building] démolir• this will do away with the need for a UN presence cela rendra la présence des Nations unies superflue• she's always doing herself down il faut toujours qu'elle se rabaisse► do for (inf) inseparable transitive verba. ( = kill) buter (inf !)c. ( = exhaust) épuiser• the door was open: they had done the place over la porte était ouverte: ils avaient mis la maison sens dessus dessous[dress, jacket] se fermerb. ( = parcel together) emballerb. ( = tolerate) supporter• I can't be doing with whining children je ne supporte pas les enfants qui pleurnichent► do without• I could have done without that! je m'en serais bien passé !• I can do without your advice! je vous dispense de vos conseils !II.do2 [dəʊ]* * *I 1. [duː, də]1) ( be busy) faire [washing up, ironing etc]2) ( make smart)3) ( complete) faire [military service, period of time]4) ( finish)have you done (colloq) complaining? — tu as fini de te plaindre?
tell him now and have done with it — dis-le lui maintenant, ce sera fait
that's done it — ( task successfully completed) ça y est; ( expressing dismay) il ne manquait plus que ça
5) ( complete through study) faire [subject, degree, homework]6) ( write) faire [translation, critique]7) ( effect change) faire8) ( hurt) faire9) (colloq) ( deal with)10) ( cook) faire [sausages, spaghetti etc]well done — [meat] bien cuit
11) ( prepare) préparer [vegetables]12) ( produce) monter [play]; faire [film, programme] (on sur)13) ( imitate) imiter [celebrity, mannerism]14) ( travel at) faire15) ( cover distance of) faire [30 km etc]16) (colloq) ( satisfy needs of)17) (colloq) ( cheat)to do somebody out of £5 — refaire (colloq) quelqu'un de 5 livres sterling
18) (colloq) ( rob)to do a bank — faire un casse (colloq) dans une banque
19) (colloq) (arrest, convict)2.to get done for — se faire prendre pour [illegal parking etc]
1) ( behave) fairedo as you're told — ( by me) fais ce que je te dis; ( by others) fais ce qu'on te dit
2) ( serve purpose)3) ( be acceptable)this really won't do! — ( as reprimand) ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
4) ( be sufficient) [amount of money] suffire5) ( finish) finir6) ( get on) [person] s'en sortir; [business] marcher7) ( in health)3.1) (with questions, negatives)own up, did you or didn't you take my pen? — avoue, est-ce que c'est toi qui as pris mon stylo ou pas?
2) ( for emphasis)4) (in requests, imperatives)do sit down — asseyez-vous, je vous en prie
he lives in France, doesn't he? — il habite en France, n'est-ce pas?
‘who wrote it?’ - ‘I did’ — ‘qui l'a écrit?’ - ‘moi’
‘shall I tell him?’ - ‘no don't’ — ‘est-ce que je le lui dis?’ - ‘non surtout pas’
‘he knows the President’ - ‘does he?’ — ‘il connaît le Président’ - ‘vraiment?’
4.so/neither does he — lui aussi/non plus
(colloq) noun GB fête fhis leaving do — son pot (colloq) de départ
Phrasal Verbs:- do in- do out- do up- do with••it's a poor do (colloq) if — c'est vraiment grave si
it was all I could do not to... — je me suis retenu pour ne pas...
nothing doing! — ( no way) pas question!
II [dəʊ]all the dos and don'ts — tout ce qu'il faut/fallait faire et ne pas faire
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6 but
but [bʌt](a) (to express contrast) mais;∎ my husband smokes, but I don't mon mari fume, mais moi non;∎ my husband doesn't smoke, but I do mon mari ne fume pas, mais moi si;∎ I speak Spanish but not Italian je parle espagnol mais pas italien;∎ she came home tired but happy elle est rentrée fatiguée mais heureuse(b) (in exclamations) mais;∎ but you can't do that! mais tu ne peux pas faire ça!;∎ but that's absurd! mais c'est absurde!∎ sorry, but I think that's MY umbrella pardon, mais je crois que c'est mon parapluie;∎ excuse me, but there's a call for you excusez-moi, il y a un appel pour vous∎ nobody, but nobody, gets in without a ticket personne, absolument personne, n'entre sans ticket(e) (except, only) mais;∎ it tastes like a grapefruit, but sweeter ça a le goût d'un pamplemousse, mais en plus sucré;∎ I'll do it, but not right now je vais le faire, mais pas tout de suite∎ she never hears his name but she starts to weep elle ne peut entendre son nom sans verser des larmes;∎ barely a day goes by but he receives another invitation il ne se passe pas un jour sans qu'il reçoive une nouvelle invitation2 adverb∎ I can but try je ne peux qu'essayer;∎ literary had I but known! si j'avais su!;∎ formal his resignation cannot but confirm such suspicions sa démission ne fait que confirmer de tels soupçons;∎ literary they had but recently become acquainted ils ne se connaissaient que depuis peu (de temps);∎ literary this life is but transitory/but a dream cette vie n'est qu'éphémère/qu'un rêve∎ get them down here but fast! descends-les et vite!∎ the meal was expensive, it wasn't very nice but le repas nous a coûté cher mais n'était pas très bon□∎ she wouldn't see anyone but her lawyer elle ne voulait voir personne sauf ou à part son avocat;∎ who but a fool would believe his story? il n'y a qu'un imbécile pour croire son histoire;∎ nobody but me knew about it personne d'autre que moi n'était au courant;∎ anyone but me tout autre que moi;∎ anything but that tout plutôt que cela;∎ he's anything but a hero c'est loin d'être un héros;∎ where but in America could you find such a gadget? il n'y a qu'en Amérique qu'on trouve un tel gadget;∎ nothing but a miracle could have saved her seul un miracle aurait pu la sauver;∎ he does nothing but complain il n'arrête pas de se plaindre;∎ there is nothing for it but to obey il n'y a qu'à obéir;∎ he is anything but happy il n'est pas du tout heureux;∎ is she lazy? - anything but! est-ce qu'elle est paresseuse? - bien au contraire!∎ turn right at the next corner but one tournez à droite au deuxième carrefour;∎ I was the last but two to finish j'étais l'avant-avant-dernier à finir4 noun∎ you're coming and no buts or I don't want any buts! tu viens, et pas de mais!sans;∎ but for her courage, many more people would have drowned sans son courage, il y aurait eu beaucoup plus de noyés;∎ but for the rain I should have gone out s'il n'avait pas plu je serais sorti;∎ he wouldn't have left but for me (it was my fault for being there) il serait resté si je n'avais pas été là; (it was for my sake) il ne serait pas parti si ça n'avait pas été pour moi∎ formal we should have been on time, but that the train was delayed nous aurions été à l'heure si le train n'avait pas été retardé;∎ I do not doubt but that we shall succeed je ne doute pas de notre réussiteenfin;∎ but then, that's just the way it goes enfin, c'est comme ça -
7 itself
itself [ɪtˈself]a.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When used emphatically, itself is translated lui-même if the noun it refers to is masculine, and elle-même if the noun is feminine.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• the mere will to cooperate is by itself not sufficient la simple volonté de coopérer n'est pas suffisante en soi► in itself en soi• just reaching the semifinals has been an achievement in itself arriver en demi-finale a déjà été un exploit en soic. (reflexive) se* * *[ɪt'self]Note: When used as a reflexive pronoun, direct and indirect, itself is translated by se (s' before a vowel or mute h): the cat hurt itself = le chat s'est fait mal; a problem presented itself = un problème s'est présentéWhen used for emphasis itself is translated by lui-même when standing for a masculine noun and elle-même when standing for a feminine noun: the car itself was not damaged = la voiture elle-même n'était pas endommagéeFor uses with prepositions ( by itself etc) see 3 below1) ( refl) se, s'2) ( emphatic) lui-même/elle-mêmein the university itself — dans l'université même or dans l'université elle-même
he was kindness itself — c'était la bonté même or personnifiée
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8 itself
❢ When used as a reflexive pronoun, direct and indirect, itself is translated by se (s' before a vowel or mute h): the cat hurt itself = le chat s'est fait mal ; a problem presented itself = un problème s'est présenté. When used for emphasis itself is translated by lui-même when standing for a masculine noun and elle-même when standing for a feminine noun: the car itself was not damaged = la voiture elle-même n'était pas endommagée. For examples and particular usages see the entry below. For uses with prepositions ( by itself etc) see 3 below. pron1 ( refl) se, s' ;2 ( emphatic) lui-même/elle-même ; the house itself was pretty la maison elle-même était jolie ; the library is not in the university itself la bibliothèque n'est pas dans l'université même or dans l'université elle-même ; he was kindness itself c'était la bonté personnifiée ;3 ( after prepositions) the heating comes on by itself le chauffage se met en marche tout seul ; the house stands by itself in the middle of a field la maison est toute seule au milieu d'un champ ; the library is a fine building in itself la bibliothèque par elle-même est un beau bâtiment ; learning French is not difficult in itself l'apprentissage du français n'est pas difficile en soi. -
9 such
1. adjective1) (of the same kind as that already mentioned or being mentioned: Animals that gnaw, such as mice, rats, rabbits and weasels are called rodents; He came from Bradford or some such place; She asked to see Mr Johnson but was told there was no such person there; I've seen several such buildings; I've never done such a thing before; doctors, dentists and such people.) tel, pareil, semblable2) (of the great degree already mentioned or being mentioned: If you had telephoned her, she wouldn't have got into such a state of anxiety; She never used to get such bad headaches (as she does now).) un tel3) (of the great degree, or the kind, to have a particular result: He shut the window with such force that the glass broke; She's such a good teacher that the headmaster asked her not to leave; Their problems are such as to make it impossible for them to live together any more.) tel4) (used for emphasis: This is such a shock! They have been such good friends to me!) tel, si2. pronoun(such a person or thing, or such persons or things: I have only a few photographs, but can show you such as I have; This isn't a good book as such (= as a book) but it has interesting pictures.) le peu que; en tant que tel- suchlike- such-and-such - such as it is -
10 either
1. pronoun(the one or the other of two: You may borrow either of these books; I offered him coffee or tea, but he didn't want either.) l'un(e) ou l'autre; l'un(e) et l'autre; ni l'un(e) ni l'autre2. adjective1) (the one or the other (of two things, people etc): He can write with either hand.) l'un ou l'autre, l'une ou l'autre; n'importe lequel, laquelle des deux2) (the one and the other (of two things, people etc); both: at either side of the garden.) chaque3. adverb1) (used for emphasis: If you don't go, I won't either.) non plus2) (moreover; besides: I used to sing, and I hadn't a bad voice, either.) d'ailleurs•- either way -
11 indeed
[in'di:d] 1. adverb1) (really; in fact; as you say; of course etc: `He's very talented, isn't he?' He is indeed; `Do you remember your grandmother?' `Indeed I do!') en effet2) (used for emphasis: Thank you very much indeed; He is very clever indeed.) vraiment2. interjection(used to show surprise, interest etc: `John said your idea was stupid.' `Indeed!') vraiment? -
12 ever
['evə] 1. adverb1) (at any time: Nobody ever visits us; She hardly ever writes; Have you ever ridden on an elephant?; If I ever / If ever I see him again I shall get my revenge; better than ever; the brightest star they had ever seen.) jamais2) (always; continually: They lived happily ever after; I've known her ever since she was a baby.) toujours; depuis3) (used for emphasis: The new doctor is ever so gentle; What ever shall I do?) comme tout; bien•- ever-- evergreen 2. noun(an evergreen tree: Firs and pines are evergreens.) arbre à feuilles persistantes- everlastingly - evermore - for ever / forever -
13 just
I adjective1) (right and fair: not favouring one more than another: a fair and just decision.) juste2) (reasonable; based on one's rights: He certainly has a just claim to the money.) juste3) (deserved: He got his just reward when he crashed the stolen car and broke his leg.) juste•- justly- justness II adverb1) ((often with as) exactly or precisely: This penknife is just what I needed; He was behaving just as if nothing had happened; The house was just as I'd remembered it.) exactement2) ((with as) quite: This dress is just as nice as that one.) tout aussi3) (very lately or recently: He has just gone out of the house.) venir de4) (on the point of; in the process of: She is just coming through the door.) sur le point de, en train de5) (at the particular moment: The telephone rang just as I was leaving.) à l'instant (oû)6) ((often with only) barely: We have only just enough milk to last till Friday; I just managed to escape; You came just in time.) (tout) juste7) (only; merely: They waited for six hours just to get a glimpse of the Queen; `Where are you going?' `Just to the post office'; Could you wait just a minute?) juste, rien que8) (used for emphasis, eg with commands: Just look at that mess!; That just isn't true!; I just don't know what to do.) donc, (tout) simplement9) (absolutely: The weather is just marvellous.) absolument•- just now - just then -
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absolute [ˈæbsəlu:t]1. adjectivea. absolu2. nounabsolu m3. compounds* * *['æbsəluːt] 1.2.the absolute — l'absolu m
1) ( complete) [monarch, minimum, majority] also Mathematics, Philosophy absolu2) ( emphatic) [chaos, idiot] véritable (before n)3) Physics, Chemistry [humidity, scale] maximum; [zero] absolu4) Lawdecree absolute — décret m irrévocable
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['veri] 1. adverb1) (to a great degree: He's very clever; You came very quickly; I'm not feeling very well.) très2) (absolutely; in the highest degree: The very first thing you must do is ring the police; She has a car of her very own.) tout; de loin2. adjective1) (exactly or precisely the thing, person etc mentioned: You're the very man I want to see; At that very minute the door opened.) même2) (extreme: at the very end of the day; at the very top of the tree.) tout (à)3) (used for emphasis in other ways: The very suggestion of a sea voyage makes her feel seasick.) seul• -
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[jet] 1. adverb1) (up till now: He hasn't telephoned yet; Have you finished yet?; We're not yet ready.) jusqu'à présent2) (used for emphasis: He's made yet another mistake / yet more mistakes.) encore3) ((with a comparative adjective) even: a yet more terrible experience.) encore2. conjunction(but; however: He's pleasant enough, yet I don't like him.) pourtant- as yet -
17 have
have [hæv]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━2. modal verb4. noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. avoir━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► avoir is the auxiliary used with most verbs to form past tenses. For important exceptions see below.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• haven't you grown! comme tu as grandi !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the agreement of the past participle with the preceding direct object.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• if I had seen her I would have spoken to her si je l'avais vue, je lui aurais parlé━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When describing uncompleted states or actions, French generally uses the present and imperfect where English uses the perfect and past perfect.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I have lived or have been living here for 10 years/since January j'habite ici depuis 10 ans/depuis janvier• I had lived or had been living there for 10 years j'habitais là depuis 10 ans► to have just... venir de...b. être━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► être is the auxiliary used with all reflexives, and the following verbs when used intransitively: aller, arriver, descendre, devenir, entrer, monter, mourir, naître, partir, passer, rentrer, rester, retourner, revenir, sortir, tomber, venir.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you've seen her, haven't you? vous l'avez vue, n'est-ce pas ?• he hasn't told anyone, has he? il n'en a parlé à personne, n'est-ce pas ?d. (in tag responses) he's got a new job -- oh has he? il a un nouveau travail -- ah bon ?• you've dropped your book -- so I have! vous avez laissé tomber votre livre -- en effet !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► (mais) si or (mais) non are used to contradict.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you haven't seen her -- yes I have! vous ne l'avez pas vue -- (mais) si !• you've made a mistake -- no I haven't! vous vous êtes trompé -- mais non !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• have you met him? -- yes I have est-ce que tu l'as rencontré ? -- oui• has he arrived? -- no he hasn't est-ce qu'il est arrivé ? -- none. (avoiding repetition of verb) have you ever been there? if you have... y êtes-vous déjà allé ? si oui,...• have you tried it? if you haven't... est-ce que vous avez goûté ça ? si vous ne l'avez pas fait,...2. modal verb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► falloir is always used in the third person singular, in an impersonal construction. Note that falloir que is always followed by the subjunctive.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you're going to have to work hard! tu vas devoir travailler dur ! il va falloir que tu travailles dur !• I'll have to leave now or I'll miss the train il faut que je parte, sinon je vais rater mon train• don't you have to get permission? est-ce qu'on ne doit pas demander la permission ?• do you have to go now? est-ce que vous devez partir tout de suite ?• we've had to work late twice this week nous avons dû rester travailler tard deux fois cette semaine• what kind of equipment would you have to have? quel type de matériel vous faudrait-il ?• it has to be the biggest scandal this year c'est sans aucun doute le plus gros scandale de l'année• do you have to make such a noise? tu ne pourrais pas faire un peu moins de bruit ?► don't/doesn't have to + infinitive━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you didn't have to tell her! tu n'avais pas besoin de le lui dire !• I don't have to do it je ne suis pas obligé or forcé de le fairea. avoir• I have or I've got three books j'ai trois livres• have you got a suitcase? avez-vous une valise ?• have you got this jumper in black? est-ce que vous avez ce pull en noir ?b. ( = eat, drink, take) he had an egg for breakfast il a mangé un œuf au petit déjeuner• shall we have a coffee? on prend un café ?► will you have...? (in offers)will you have tea or coffee? vous prendrez du thé ou du café ?c. ( = spend) passer• what sort of day have you had? est-ce que tu as passé une bonne journée ?d. ( = smoke) fumere. ( = catch) tenir• I've got him where I want him! (inf) je le tiens !► to let sb have ( = give) donner à qn• I'll let you have it for $100 je vous le cède pour 100 dollars► must have or have to have• I must have £50 at once il me faut 50 livres immédiatement• I must or have to have them by this afternoon il me les faut pour cet après-midi► won't have ( = refuse to accept)I won't have this nonsense! je ne tolérerai pas ces enfantillages !• I won't have it! je ne tolérerai pas ça !• I won't have him risking his neck on that motorbike je ne veux pas qu'il risque sa vie sur cette moto► would have ( = wish)what would you have me do? que voulez-vous que je fasse ?• he had his worst fears confirmed ses pires craintes se sont réalisées► to have sb do sth faire faire qch à qn• she soon had them all reading and writing elle a réussi très rapidement à leur apprendre à lire et à écrire► had better ( = should)4. nouna. faire venira. [+ clothes] porterb. (British = have planned) I've got so much on this week that... j'ai tant de choses à faire cette semaine que...d. Richard has nothing on him! (inf) Richard ne lui arrive pas à la cheville !• the police have nothing on me (inf) la police n'a pas de preuve contre moi► have out separable transitive verb[+ friends, neighbours] inviter* * *[hæv, həv] 1.transitive verb ( uses not covered in NOTE)1) ( possess) avoir2) ( consume) prendre3) ( want) vouloir, prendrewhat will you have? — qu'est-ce que vous prendrez or voulez?
I wouldn't have him/her any other way — c'est comme ça que je l'aime
4) (receive, get) recevoir [letter, information]5) ( hold) faire [party, celebration]; tenir [meeting]; organiser [competition, ballot, exhibition]; avoir [conversation]; mener [enquiry]6) (exert, exhibit) avoir [effect, influence]; avoir [courage, courtesy] ( to do de faire)7) ( spend) passerto have a nice day/evening — passer une journée/soirée agréable
to have a hard ou bad time — traverser une période difficile
8) ( be provided with) (also have got)I have ou I've got letters to write — j'ai du courrier à faire
9) (undergo, suffer) avoirto have (the) flu/a heart attack — avoir la grippe/une crise cardiaque
to have an interview — avoir or passer un entretien
10) ( cause to be done)they would have us believe that... — ils voudraient nous faire croire que...
I would have you know that... — je voudrais que vous sachiez que...
11) ( cause to become)we'll soon have everything ready/clean — nous aurons bientôt fini de tout préparer/nettoyer
if you're not careful you'll have that glass over — si tu ne fais pas attention tu vas renverser le verre
12) ( allow) tolérer13) ( physically hold) tenirshe had him by the throat/by the arm — elle le tenait à la gorge/par le bras
14) ( give birth to) [woman] avoir [child]; [animal] mettre bas, avoir [young]15) ( as impersonal verb)over here, we have a painting by Picasso — ici vous avez un tableau de Picasso
what we have here is a small group of extremists — ce à quoi nous avons affaire ici, est un petit groupe d'extrémistes
16) ( puzzle)you have ou you've got me there! — là tu me poses une colle! (colloq)
17) ( have at one's mercy) (also have got)2.I've got you/him now! — maintenant je te/le tiens!
modal auxiliary1) ( must)I have (got) to leave now — je dois partir maintenant, il faut que je parte maintenant
2) ( need to)you don't have to ou you haven't got to leave so early — tu n'as pas besoin de or tu n'es pas obligé de partir si tôt
3) ( for emphasis)3.this has (got) to be the most difficult decision I've ever made — c'est sans doute la décision la plus difficile que j'aie jamais eu à prendre
1) gen avoir; ( with movement and reflexive verbs) être2) ( in tag questions etc)you've seen the film, haven't you? — tu as vu le film, n'est-ce pas?
you haven't seen the film, have you? — tu n'as pas vu le film?
you haven't seen my bag, have you? — tu n'as pas vu mon sac, par hasard?
‘he's already left’ - ‘has he indeed!’ — ‘il est déjà parti’ - ‘vraiment!’
4.‘you've never met him’ - ‘yes I have!’ — ‘tu ne l'as jamais rencontré’ - ‘mais si!’
having auxiliary verb1) ( in time clauses)having finished his breakfast, he went out — après avoir fini son petit déjeuner, il est sorti
2) (because, since)•Phrasal Verbs:- have in- have on- have up••this car/TV has had it — (colloq) cette voiture/télé est foutue (colloq)
when your father finds out, you've had it! — (colloq) ( in trouble) quand ton père l'apprendra, ça va être ta fête! (colloq)
I can't do any more, I've had it! — (colloq) ( tired) je n'en peux plus, je suis crevé! (colloq)
I've had it (up to here) with... — (colloq) j'en ai marre de... (colloq)
to have it in for somebody — (colloq) avoir quelqu'un dans le collimateur (colloq)
she has/doesn't have it in her to do — elle est capable/incapable de faire
and the ayes/noes have it — les oui/non l'emportent
...and what have you —...etc
there is no milk/there are no houses to be had — on ne trouve pas de lait/de maisons
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18 oneself
oneself [wʌnˈself]a. (reflexive) se* * *[ˌwʌn'self]Note: When used as a reflexive pronoun, direct and indirect, oneself is translated by se (or s' before a vowel): to hurt oneself = se blesser; to enjoy oneself = s'amuserWhen used in emphasis the translation is soi-même: to do something oneself = faire quelque chose soi-mêmeAfter a preposition, the translation is soi1) ( refl) se, s'to wash/cut oneself — se laver/couper
2) ( for emphasis) soi-même3) ( after prep) soito have the house all to oneself — avoir la maison pour soi tout seul/toute seule
to talk to oneself — parler tout seul/toute seule
(all) by oneself — tout seul/toute seule
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19 do
[du:] 1. 3rd person singular present tense - does; verb1) (used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements: Do you smoke?)2) (used with a more important verb for emphasis; ; [ðo sit down])3) (used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before: I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.)4) (used with a more important verb after seldom, rarely and little: Little did he know what was in store for him.)5) (to carry out or perform: What shall I do?; That was a terrible thing to do.) faire6) (to manage to finish or complete: When you've done that, you can start on this; We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.) faire, finir7) (to perform an activity concerning something: to do the washing; to do the garden / the windows.) faire8) (to be enough or suitable for a purpose: Will this piece of fish do two of us?; That'll do nicely; Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?; Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?) aller9) (to work at or study: She's doing sums; He's at university doing science.) faire, étudier10) (to manage or prosper: How's your wife doing?; My son is doing well at school.) aller11) (to put in order or arrange: She's doing her hair.) arranger12) (to act or behave: Why don't you do as we do?) faire, agir13) (to give or show: The whole town gathered to do him honour.) faire14) (to cause: What damage did the storm do?; It won't do him any harm.) faire15) (to see everything and visit everything in: They tried to do London in four days.) visiter, faire2. noun(an affair or a festivity, especially a party: The school is having a do for Christmas.) réception, fête- doer- doings - done - do-it-yourself - to-do - I - he could be doing with / could do with - do away with - do for - done for - done in - do out - do out of - do's and don'ts - do without - to do with - what are you doing with -
20 oneself
❢ When used as a reflexive pronoun, direct and indirect, oneself is translated by se (or s' before a vowel): to hurt oneself = se blesser ; to enjoy oneself = s'amuser.When used in emphasis the translation is soi-même: to do something oneself = faire quelque chose soi-même. After a preposition, the translation is soi. For particular usages see the entry below. pron1 ( refl) se, s' ; to wash/cut oneself se laver/couper ;2 ( for emphasis) soi-même ;3 ( after prep) soi ; to be sure of oneself être sûr de soi ; to look pleased with oneself avoir l'air content de soi ; to have the house all to oneself avoir la maison pour soi tout seul/toute seule ; to talk to oneself parler tout seul/toute seule ; (all) by oneself tout seul/toute seule ; ⇒ ashamed, keep.
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