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a2 [ə, stressed eɪ]ⓘ GRAM a devient an [ən, stressed æn] devant voyelle ou h muet(a) (before countable nouns) un (une);∎ a book un livre;∎ a car une voiture;∎ an hour [ən'aʊə(r)] une heure;∎ a unit [ə'ju:nɪt] une unité;∎ an uncle [ən'ʌŋkəl] un oncle;∎ an MP [ən'em'pi:] un député;∎ a man and (a) woman un homme et une femme;∎ a cup and saucer une tasse et sa soucoupe;∎ a wife and mother (same person) une épouse et mère;∎ I can't see a thing je ne vois rien;∎ he has a broken leg il a une jambe cassée;∎ would you like a coffee? voulez-vous un café?;∎ an expensive German wine un vin allemand cher(b) (before professions, nationalities)∎ she's a doctor elle est médecin;∎ he is an Englishman/a father il est anglais/père;∎ have you seen a doctor? as-tu vu un médecin?∎ a thousand dollars mille dollars;∎ a dozen eggs une douzaine d'œufs;∎ a third/fifth un tiers/cinquième;∎ a twentieth of a second un vingtième de seconde;∎ an hour and a half une heure et demie∎ £2 a dozen/a hundred grammes deux livres la douzaine/les cent grammes;∎ five francs a head cinq francs par tête;∎ three times a year trois fois par an;∎ fifty kilometres an hour cinquante kilomètres à l'heure(e) (before terms of quantity, amount)∎ a few weeks/months quelques semaines/mois;∎ a lot of money beaucoup d'argent;∎ a great many visitors de très nombreux visiteurs;∎ have a little more wine reprenez donc un peu de vin;∎ he raised a number of interesting points il a soulevé un certain nombre de questions intéressantes(f) (before periods of time) un (une);∎ I'm going for a week/month/year je pars (pour) une semaine/un mois/un an;∎ we talked for a while nous avons parlé un moment(g) (before days, months, festivals) un (une);∎ the meeting was on a Tuesday la réunion a eu lieu un mardi;∎ it was an exceptionally cold March ce fut un mois de mars particulièrement froid;∎ we had an unforgettable Christmas nous avons passé un Noël inoubliable∎ Caen, a large town in Normandy Caen, ville importante de Normandie;∎ forty years a sailor and he still gets seasick! il a beau être marin depuis quarante ans, il lui arrive toujours d'avoir le mal de mer∎ a triangle has three sides le triangle a trois côtés;∎ a cheetah can outrun a lion le guépard court plus vite que le lion;∎ a computer is a useful machine les ordinateurs sont des machines bien utiles∎ a wide knowledge of the subject une connaissance approfondie du sujet;∎ he felt a joy he could not conceal il éprouvait une joie qu'il ne pouvait dissimuler∎ there's been a general falling off in sales il y a eu une chute des ventes∎ to have a red nose avoir le nez rouge;∎ I have a sore throat/back/knee j'ai mal à la gorge/au dos/au genou;∎ to have a taste for sth avoir le goût de qch∎ a Miss Jones was asking for you une certaine Miss Jones vous a demandé;∎ he's been described as a new James Dean on le donne pour le nouveau James Dean;∎ her mother was a Sinclair sa mère était une Sinclair∎ it's a genuine Matisse c'est un Matisse authentique;∎ there's a new Stephen King/Spielberg out next month il y a un nouveau Stephen King/Spielberg qui sort le mois prochain(o) (after half, rather, such, what)∎ half a glass of wine un demi-verre de vin;∎ she's rather an interesting person c'est quelqu'un d'assez intéressant;∎ you're such an idiot! tu es tellement bête!;∎ what a lovely dress! quelle jolie robe!(p) (after as, how, so, too + adj)∎ that's too big a slice for me cette tranche est trop grosse pour moi;∎ how big a bit do you want? combien en veux-tu?;∎ she's as nice a girl as you could wish to meet c'est la fille la plus gentille du monde -
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