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A n supposition f, conjecture f ; to have ou make ou take a guess essayer de deviner ; to have ou make ou take a guess at sth essayer de deviner qch ; my guess is that they will lose à mon avis ils vont perdre ; at a (rough) guess I would say that he is about 30 au hasard je dirais qu'il a 30 ans environ ; there are, at a guess, ten families living in that building il doit y avoir approximativement une dizaine de familles habitant cet immeuble ; I'll give you three guesses! devine un peu! ; that was a good guess! tu as deviné juste! ; ‘how did you know?’-‘just a lucky guess!’ ‘comment est-ce que tu l'as su?’-‘c'est le hasard’ ; to make a wild guess deviner au hasard ; your guess is as good as mine je n'en sais pas plus que toi ; it's anybody's guess! les paris sont ouverts! ; what will happen now is anybody's guess Dieu seul sait ce qui va arriver maintenant.B vtr1 ( intuit) deviner [answer, reason, name, identity] ; deviner, estimer [length, width] ; to guess that conjecturer que, supposer que ; to guess sb's age ( correctly) deviner l'âge de qn ; ( make estimate) donner un âge à qn ; I should guess him to be about 30 je lui donnerais 30 ans environ ; I guessed the time to be about one o'clock il me semblait qu'il devait être environ une heure ; she had guessed what I was thinking elle avait deviné mes pensées ; you'll never guess what has happened! tu ne devineras jamais ce qui vient d'arriver! ; I guessed as much! je m'en doutais! ; guess what! I've won a prize! tu sais quoi ○ ! j'ai gagné un prix! ; guess who! devine qui c'est! ;2 US ( suppose) supposer ; (believe, think) penser, croire ; I guess (that) what he says is true je suppose que ce qu'il dit est vrai ; I guess (that) I must be going now il faut que je m'en aille maintenant ; ‘he's right, you know’-‘I guess so’ ‘il a raison, tu sais’-‘oui, je suppose’ ; ‘you can't be sure’-‘I guess not’ ‘tu ne peux pas être sûr’-‘non, effectivement’.C vi1 deviner ; to guess at faire des suppositions or des conjectures quant à [plans, outcome] ; to guess right deviner juste ; to guess wrong se tromper ; you're just guessing! tu ne fais que deviner! ; you'll never guess! tu ne devineras jamais! ; I couldn't begin to guess je n'en ai pas la moindre idée ; to keep sb guessing laisser qn dans le doute. -
2 might
I.1 ( indicating possibility) she might be right elle a peut-être raison ; the rumour might not be true cette rumeur n'est peut-être pas fondée ; they might not go peut-être qu'ils n'iront pas ; ‘will you come?’-‘I might’ ‘tu viendras?’-‘peut-être’ ; you might finish the painting before tonight tu auras peut-être fini de peindre avant ce soir ; you might find that vous trouverez peut-être que ; they might have to go away il va peut-être falloir qu'ils partent ; we might be misjudging her nous la jugeons peut-être mal, il se peut que nous la jugions mal fml ; you might have met her already tu l'as peut-être déjà rencontrée ; they might have got lost ils se sont peut-être perdus ; you might have guessed that vous aurez peut-être deviné que ; the plane might have landed by now l'avion a dû déjà atterrir ; it might be tiredness c'est peut-être or ça pourrait être la fatigue ; I might (well) lose my job je risque de perdre mon travail ; it might well improve the standard ça pourrait bien améliorer le niveau ; try as I might, I can't do it j'ai beau essayer, je n'arrive pas à le faire ; however unlikely that might be si improbable que cela puisse paraître ; whatever they might think quoi qu'ils pensent ( subj) ; he wouldn't do anything which might damage his reputation il ne ferait rien qui puisse nuire à sa réputation ;2 ( indicating unrealized possibility) I might have been killed! j'aurais pu être tué! ; I hate to think what might have happened je n'ose imaginer ce qui aurait pu arriver ; more might have been done to prevent it on aurait pu faire davantage pour l'éviter ; he was thinking about what might have been il pensait à ce qui se serait passé si les choses avaient été différentes ; if I had been there all this mightn't have happened si j'avais été là tout ça ne serait peut-être pas arrivé ; if they had acted quickly he might well be alive today s'ils avaient agi plus vite il serait peut-être encore en vie aujourd'hui ;3 (in sequence of tenses, in reported speech) I said I might go into town j'ai dit que j'irais peut-être en ville ; we thought you might be here nous avons pensé que tu serais peut-être là ; they thought she might have been his lover ils ont pensé qu'elle avait peut-être été sa maîtresse ; I thought it might rain j'ai pensé qu'il risquait de pleuvoir ; she asked if she might leave elle demanda si elle pouvait partir ;4 sout ( when making requests) might I make a suggestion? puis-je me permettre de faire une suggestion? ; might I enquire if… puis-je me permettre de demander si… ; I should like to invite them, if I might j'aimerais les inviter si vous voulez bien ; I might add that j'aurais souhaité ajouter que ; might I ask who's calling? c'est de la part de qui s'il vous plaît? ; and who, might I ask, are you?, and who might you be? ( aggressive) on peut savoir qui vous êtes? ;5 ( when making suggestions) it might be a good idea to do ce serait peut-être une bonne idée de faire ; you might try making some more enquiries tu devrais essayer de te renseigner un peu plus ; they might do well to consult an expert ils feraient peut-être bien de consulter un spécialiste ; we might go out for a meal later nous pourrions aller manger au restaurant plus tard ; you might like to drop in later tu veux peut-être passer plus tard ; you might take time to visit the old town n'hésitez pas à aller visiter la vieille ville ;6 (when making statement, argument) one might argue ou it might be argued that on pourrait dire or faire valoir que ; one might assume that on pourrait supposer que ; as you ou one might expect comme de bien entendu ; what you might call a ‘putsch’ ce qu'on pourrait appeler un ‘putsch’ ; as you might imagine, he has conservative tastes comme vous pouvez le deviner, il a des goûts classiques ;7 (expressing reproach, irritation) I might have known ou guessed! j'aurais dû m'en douter! ; you might try helping! tu pourrais peut-être aider! ; he might at least apologize! il pourrait au moins s'excuser! ; they might have consulted us first ils auraient pu nous consulter d'abord ; you might have warned me! tu aurais pu me prévenir! ;8 ( in concessives) he might be very brilliant but he's not a politician il est peut-être très brillant mais ce n'est pas un politique ; they might not be fast but they're reliable ils ne sont peut-être pas rapides mais on peut au moins compter sur eux ; ⇒ well B 2.II.might n1 ( power) puissance f ;might makes right la raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure ; with might and main† de toutes ses forces. -
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might [maɪt]1. modal verba. ( = may)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When might expresses present, future or past possibility, it is often translated by peut-être, with the appropriate tense of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = could)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you might have told me you weren't coming! tu aurais pu me prévenir que tu ne viendrais pas !might I suggest that...? puis-je me permettre de suggérer que... ?c. ( = should) I might have known j'aurais dû m'en douter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. (emphatic) and, I might add, it was entirely his fault et j'ajouterais que c'était entièrement de sa faute• why did he give her his credit card? -- you might well ask! mais pourquoi lui a-t-il donné sa carte de crédit ? -- va savoir !• one might well ask whether... on est en droit de se demander si...• try as he might, he couldn't do it il a eu beau essayer, il n'y est pas arrivé2. noun* * *I [maɪt]1) ( indicating possibility)‘will you come?’ - ‘I might’ — ‘tu viendras?’ - ‘peut-être’
you might have guessed that... — vous aurez peut-être deviné que...
try as I might, I can't do it — j'ai beau essayer, je n'y arrive pas
he was thinking about what might have been — il pensait à ce qui se serait passé si les choses avaient été différentes
if they had acted quickly he might well be alive — s'ils avaient agi plus vite il serait peut-être encore en vie
4) sout ( when making requests)and who, might I ask, are you? —
and who might you be? — ( aggressive) on peut savoir qui vous êtes?
5) ( when making suggestions)6) (when making statement, argument)one might argue ou it might be argued that — on pourrait dire or faire valoir que
as you ou one might expect — comme de bien entendu
7) (expressing reproach, irritation)I might have known ou guessed! — j'aurais dû m'en douter!
8) ( in concessives)II [maɪt]they might not be fast but they're reliable — ils ne sont peut-être pas rapides mais on peut au moins compter sur eux; well I 2. 2
1) ( power) puissance f2) ( physical strength) force f -
4 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) -
5 would
❢ 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 voiture.For more examples, particular usages and all other uses of would see the entry below. modal aux ( aussi 'd ; nég wouldn't)1 (in sequence of past tenses, in reported speech) she said she wouldn't come elle a dit qu'elle ne viendrait pas ; we thought we would be late nous avons pensé que nous serions en retard ; I was sure you' d like it j'étais sûr que ça te plairait ; we were wondering if he'd accept nous nous demandions s'il accepterait ; they promised that they'd come back ils ont promis de revenir ; soon it would be time to get up ce serait bientôt l'heure de se lever ; it was to be the last chance we would have to leave ça devait être la dernière chance que nous aurions de partir ; he thought she would have forgotten il pensait qu'elle aurait oublié ; I wish he would shut the door! il pourrait fermer la porte! ; I wish you'd be quiet! tu ne pourrais pas te taire! ;2 ( in conditional statements) it would be wonderful if they came ce serait merveilleux s'ils venaient ; I'm sure she would help if you asked her je suis sûr qu'elle t'aiderait si tu le lui demandais ; if we'd left later we would have missed the train si nous étions partis plus tard nous aurions raté le train ; we wouldn't be happy anywhere else nous ne serions heureux nulle part ailleurs ; what would be the best way to approach him? quel serait le meilleur moyen de l'aborder? ; who would ever have believed it? qui l'aurait cru? ; you wouldn't have thought it possible! on n'aurait jamais cru que c'était possible! ; I would have found out sooner or later je l'aurais découvert tôt ou tard ; wouldn't it be nice if… ce serait bien si… ; we wouldn't have succeeded without his help nous n'aurions jamais réussi sans son aide ; it wouldn't be the same without them ça ne serait pas la même chose sans eux ; it cost far less than I would have expected ça a coûté beaucoup moins cher que je n'aurais pensé ;3 ( expressing willingness to act) do you know anyone who would do it? est-ce que tu connais quelqu'un qui le ferait? ; they couldn't find anyone who would take the job ils n'arrivaient pas à trouver quelqu'un qui accepte ( subj) le poste ; he wouldn't hurt a fly il ne ferait pas de mal à une mouche ; she just wouldn't listen elle ne voulait rien entendre ; after that I wouldn't eat any canned food après cela je ne voulais plus manger de conserves ; he wouldn't do a thing to help il n'a rien voulu faire pour aider ; the police wouldn't give any further details la police a refusé de donner plus de détails ; they asked me to leave but I wouldn't ils m'ont demandé de partir mais j'ai refusé ;4 ( expressing inability to function) the door wouldn't close la porte ne voulait pas se fermer ; the brakes wouldn't work les freins ne marchaient pas ;5 (expressing desire, preference) we would like to stay another night nous aimerions rester une nuit de plus ; we'd really love to see you nous aimerions vraiment te voir ; I would much rather travel alone je préfèrerais nettement voyager seul ; she would have preferred a puppy elle aurait préféré un chiot ; which film would you rather see? quel film est-ce que tu préférerais voir? ; I wouldn't mind another slice of cake je prendrais bien un autre morceau de gâteau ; it's what he would have wanted c'est ce qu'il aurait voulu ;6 ( in polite requests or proposals) would you like something to eat? voudriez-vous quelque chose à manger? ; would you like some more tea? voulez-vous encore du thé? ; would you help me set the table? est-ce que tu pourrais m'aider à mettre la table? ; switch off the radio, would you? éteins la radio, tu veux bien? ; would you be interested in buying a vacuum cleaner? est-ce que vous seriez intéressé par un aspirateur? ; would you like to go to a concert est-ce que tu aimerais aller à un concert? ; would you give her the message? est-ce que vous voulez bien lui transmettre le message? ; would you mind not smoking please? est-ce que ça vous ennuyerait de ne pas fumer s'il vous plaît? ; would you please be quiet un peu de silence s'il vous plaît ; would you be so kind as to leave? sout auriez-vous l'obligeance de partir d'ici? fml ;7 ( used to attenuate statements) it would seem that he was right il semblerait qu'il avait raison ; so it would seem c'est ce qu'il semble ; you would think they'd be satisfied with the results! on aurait pu penser qu'ils seraient satisfaits des résultats! ; I wouldn't say that je ne dirais pas ça ; I would have thought it was obvious j'aurais pensé que c'était évident ; I wouldn't know je ne pourrais pas vous le dire ;8 ( when giving advice) I wouldn't do that if I were you je ne ferais pas ça à ta place or si j'étais toi ; I really wouldn't worry à ta place je ne m'en ferais pas ; I would check the timetable first tu ferais bien de vérifier l'horaire d'abord ; I'd give her a ring now tu devrais lui téléphoner maintenant ; wouldn't it be better to write? est-ce que ce ne serait pas mieux d'écrire? ;9 ( expressing exasperation) ‘he denies it’-‘well he would, wouldn't he?’ ‘il le nie’-‘évidemment!’ ; of course you would contradict him! bien sûr il a fallu que tu le contredises! ; ‘she put her foot in it ○ ’-‘she would!’ ‘elle a mis les pieds dans le plat ○ ’-‘tu m'étonnes!’, ‘c'est bien d'elle!’ ;10 ( expressing an assumption) what time would that be? c'était vers quelle heure? ; I suppose it would have been about 3 pm je pense qu'il était à peu près 15h 00 ; being so young, you wouldn't remember the war étant donné ton âge tu ne dois pas te rappeler la guerre ; let's see, that would be his youngest son voyons, ça doit être son plus jeune fils ; it would have been about five years ago ça devait être il y a environ cinq ans ; you'd never have guessed she was German on n'aurait jamais cru qu'elle était allemande ;11 (indicating habitual event or behaviour in past: used to) she would sit for hours at the window elle passait des heures assise à la fenêtre ; every winter the fields would be flooded tous les hivers les champs étaient inondés ; the children would be up at dawn les enfants étaient toujours debout à l'aube ;
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