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1 inability
incapacité f;∎ our inability to help them notre incapacité à les aider -
2 inability
inability [‚ɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ]* * *[ˌɪnə'bɪlətɪ] -
3 inability
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4 inability
[inə'biləti](the lack of power, means, ability etc (to do something): I was surprised at his inability to read.) incapacité -
5 inability
empêchement m, incapacité f -
6 inability to work
incapacité de travail (MIX407, LGA) -
7 inability, to, pay
incapacité f de payer -
8 absence, or, inability
absence f ou empêchement m -
9 genuine
genuine [ˈdʒenjʊɪn]a. [refugee, antique] authentique ; [leather, silver] véritablec. [person, relationship] sincère* * *['dʒenjʊɪn]1) ( real) [reason, motive] vrai2) ( authentic) [work of art] authentique; [jewel, substance] véritableit's the genuine article — (colloq) c'est du vrai (colloq)
3) ( sincere) [person, effort, interest] sincère; [simplicity] vrai; [inability] non feint (after n); [buyer] sérieux/-ieuse -
10 would
would [wʊd]1. modal verba.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When would is used to form the conditional, the French conditional is used.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I wouldn't worry, if I were you à ta place, je ne m'inquiéterais pas• to my surprise, he agreed -- I never thought he would à ma grande surprise, il a accepté -- je ne l'aurais jamais pensé• who would have thought it? qui l'aurait pensé ?• I said I'd go, so I'm going j'ai dit que j'irais, alors j'y vais• I said I'd go, so I went j'avais dit que j'irais, alors j'y suis allé━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• if you would come with me, I'd go to see him si vous vouliez bien m'accompagner, j'irais le voir━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━would you wait here please! attendez ici s'il vous plaît !• would you close the window please voulez-vous fermer la fenêtre, s'il vous plaît► would you like ( = do you want)would you like some tea? voulez-vous du thé ?• would you like to go for a walk? est-ce que vous aimeriez faire une promenade ?• 50 years ago the streets would be empty on Sundays il y a 50 ans, les rues étaient vides le dimanche• I saw him come out of the shop -- when would this be? je l'ai vu sortir du magasin -- quand ?d. (inevitability) you would go and tell her! évidemment tu es allé le lui dire !• it would have to rain! évidemment il fallait qu'il pleuve !e. (conjecture) it would have been about 8 o'clock when he came il devait être 8 heures à peu près quand il est venu2. modifier* * *[wʊd, wəd]Note: When would is used with a verb in English to form the conditional tense, would + verb is translated by the present conditional of the appropriate verb in French and would have + verb by the past conditional of the appropriate verb: I would do it if I had time = je le ferais si j'avais le temps; I would have done it if I had had time = je l'aurais fait si j'avais eu le temps; he said he would fetch the car = il a dit qu'il irait chercher la voitureFor more examples, particular usages and all other uses of would see the entry below1) (in sequence of past tenses, in reported speech)if we'd left later we would have missed the train — si nous étions partis plus tard nous aurions raté le train
wouldn't it be nice if... — ce serait bien si...
they couldn't find anyone who would take the job — ils n'arrivaient pas à trouver quelqu'un qui accepte le poste
5) (expressing desire, preference)switch off the radio, would you? — éteins la radio, tu veux bien?
8) ( when giving advice)9) ( expressing exasperation)‘he denies it’ - ‘well he would, wouldn't he?’ — ‘il le nie’ - ‘évidemment!’
‘she put her foot in it (colloq)’ - ‘she would!’ — ‘elle a mis les pieds dans le plat (colloq)’ - ‘tu m'étonnes!’
10) ( expressing an assumption)let's see, that would be his youngest son — voyons, ça doit être son plus jeune fils
11) (indicating habitual event or behaviour in past: used to) -
11 distress
[di'stres] 1. noun1) (great sorrow, trouble or pain: She was in great distress over his disappearance; Is your leg causing you any distress?; The loss of all their money left the family in acute distress.) détresse2) (a cause of sorrow: My inability to draw has always been a distress to me.) affliction2. verb(to cause pain or sorrow to: I'm distressed by your lack of interest.) affliger- distressingly -
12 failure
[-jə]1) (the state or act of failing: She was upset by her failure in the exam; failure of the electricity supply.) échec; panne2) (an unsuccessful person or thing: He felt he was a failure.) raté/-ée3) (inability, refusal etc to do something: his failure to reply.) incapacité -
13 insomnia
[in'somniə](inability to sleep: She takes sleeping-pills as she suffers from insomnia.) insomnie -
14 obstacle
['obstəkl](something which prevents progress: His inability to learn foreign languages was an obstacle to his career.) obstacle -
15 constitutional
constitutional, US [transcription][-"tu ;-"]A † n promenade f.B adj1 Pol [amendment, law, crisis, reform, right, monarchy] constitutionnel/-elle ; [action] conforme à la loi ; -
16 crippling
1 lit [disease] invalidant ; -
17 genuine
1 ( real) [bargain, reason, motive] vrai ; many poor families are in genuine difficulty beaucoup de familles pauvres sont vraiment dans le besoin ; in case of genuine emergency s'il y a vraiment urgence ;2 ( authentic) [work of art] authentique ; [jewel, substance] véritable ; it's the genuine article ○ c'est du vrai ○ ; he's the genuine article ○ c'est un vrai de vrai ○ ;3 ( sincere) [person, emotion, effort, interest] sincère ; [simplicity] vrai ; [inability] non feint (after n) ; [buyer] sérieux/-ieuse ; it was a genuine mistake c'était vraiment une erreur. -
18 immobility
1 (of traffic, vehicle) immobilité f ;2 ( inability to move) ( of person) impotence f ; immobility of labour manque de mobilité de la main-d'œuvre ;3 ( lack of change) inertie f. -
19 innumeracy
innumeracy, US [transcription][I"nu ;-"] n GB ( inability to count) incapacité f de compter ; ( unfamiliarity with maths) ignorance f en calcul. -
20 temperamental
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