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indefinite [ɪn'defɪnɪt](a) (indeterminate) indéterminé, illimité;∎ for an indefinite period pour une période indéterminée;∎ an indefinite strike une grève illimitée;∎ of indefinite origin d'origine incertaine(b) (vague, imprecise) flou, peu précis;∎ an indefinite answer une réponse floue ou vague►► Grammar indefinite article article m indéfini;Grammar indefinite pronoun pronom m indéfini -
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indefinite [ɪnˈdefɪnɪt]1. adjectivea. ( = unspecified) indéterminé ; [strike, ban] illimitéb. ( = vague) [feelings] indéfini ; [word, plans] imprécis2. compounds* * *[ɪn'defɪnət]1) ( vague) vague2) ( without limits) [period, delay] illimité; [number] indéterminé; [ban] pour une durée indéterminée3) Linguisticsthe indefinite article — l'article m indéfini
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[in'definit]1) (not fixed or exact; without clearly marked outlines or limits: She invited her mother to stay for an indefinite length of time.) indéterminé2) (vague; uncertain: His plans are indefinite at the moment.) indéfini•- indefinitely - indefinite article -
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1) (a thing or an object: This shop sells articles of all kinds; articles of clothing.) article2) (a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine: He has written an article on the new sports centre for a local magazine.) article3) (the (the definite article) or a/an (the indefinite article).) article -
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A n3 Admin, Jur ( clause) article m ; in ou under Article 12 à l'article 12 ; article of faith Relig, fig article de foi ; the Thirty-nine Articles Relig les trente-neuf articles de foi (de l'Église Anglicane) ;5 ( in a newsgroup) article m. -
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article [ˈα:tɪkl]b. (in newspaper) article m* * *['ɑːtɪkl] 1.1) ( object) objet marticle of clothing — article m vestimentaire
2) ( written) article m (about, on sur)in ou under Article 12 — à l'article 12
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a [eɪ, ə]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Before vowel or silent h: an.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► In French, the indefinite article reflects the gender of the noun: for masculine nouns, use un; for feminine nouns, use une.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The definite article le, la, les is sometimes used in French to translate the indefinite article.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note how the article is not used at all in the following examples referring to someone's profession or marital status.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• as a teacher, I believe that... en tant qu'enseignant, je crois que...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the different ways of translating a when it means per.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• $4 a person 4 dollars par personne• 3 euros a kilo 3 € le kilo* * *IA [eɪ] noun1) ( letter) a, A m2) A Music la m3) A ( place)4) a ( in house number) a; cf bis5) A GB ( road)II [ə, eɪ](avant voyelle ou ‘h’ muet an [æn, ən]) determiner un/une -
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The determiner or indefinite article a or an is translated by un + masculine noun and by une + feminine noun:a tree= un arbrea chair= une chaiseThere are, however, some cases where the article is not translated:with professions and trades:her mother is a teacher= sa mère est professeurwith other nouns used in apposition:he’s a widower= il est veufwith what a:what a pretty house!= quelle jolie maison!For translations of a few, a little, a lot, a great many see the entries few, little, lot, many.When expressing prices in relation to weight, the definite article le/la is used in French:ten euros a kilo= dix euros le kiloIn other expressions where a/an means per, the French translation is usually par:twice a day= deux fois par jourFor translations of all other expressions using the indefinite article such as to make a noise, to make a fortune, at a blow etc. consult the appropriate noun entry (noise, fortune, blow etc.). -
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Where does it hurt?where does it hurt?= où est-ce que ça vous fait mal? or (more formally) où avez-vous mal?his leg hurts= sa jambe lui fait malhe has a pain in his leg= il a mal à la jambeNote that with avoir mal à French uses the definite article (la) with the part of the body, where English has a possessive (his), hence:his head was aching= il avait mal à la têteEnglish has other ways of expressing this idea, but avoir mal à fits them too:he had toothache= il avait mal aux dentshis ears hurt= il avait mal aux oreillesAccidentsshe broke her leg= elle s’est cassé la jambeElle s’est cassé la jambe means literally she broke to herself the leg ; because the se is an indirect object, the past participle cassé does not agree. This is true of all such constructions:she sprained her ankle= elle s’est foulé la chevillethey burned their hands= ils se sont brûlé les mainsChronic conditionsNote that the French often use fragile (weak) to express a chronic condition:he has a weak heart= il a le cœur fragilehe has kidney trouble= il a les reins fragileshe has a bad back= il a le dos fragileBeing illMostly French uses the definite article with the name of an illness:to have flu= avoir la grippeto have measles= avoir la rougeoleto have malaria= avoir la malariaThis applies to most infectious diseases, including childhood illnesses. However, note the exceptions ending in -ite (e.g. une hépatite, une méningite) below.When the illness affects a specific part of the body, French uses the indefinite article:to have cancer= avoir un cancerto have cancer of the liver= avoir un cancer du foieto have pneumonia= avoir une pneumonieto have cirrhosis= avoir une cirrhoseto have a stomach ulcer= avoir un ulcère à l’estomacMost words in -ite ( English -itis) work like this:to have bronchitis= avoir une bronchiteto have hepatitis= avoir une hépatiteWhen the illness is a generalized condition, French tends to use du, de l’, de la or des:to have rheumatism= avoir des rhumatismesto have emphysema= avoir de l’emphysèmeto have asthma= avoir de l’asthmeto have arthritis= avoir de l’arthriteOne exception here is:to have hay fever= avoir le rhume des foinsWhen there is an adjective for such conditions, this is often preferred in French:to have asthma= être asthmatiqueto have epilepsy= être épileptiqueSuch adjectives can be used as nouns to denote the person with the illness, e.g. un/une asthmatique and un/une épileptique etc.French has other specific words for people with certain illnesses:someone with cancer= un cancéreux/une cancéreuseIf in doubt check in the dictionary.English with is translated by qui a or qui ont, and this is always safe:someone with malaria= quelqu’un qui a la malariapeople with Aids= les gens qui ont le SidaFalling illThe above guidelines about the use of the definite and indefinite articles in French hold good for talking about the onset of illnesses.French has no general equivalent of to get. However, where English can use catch, French can use attraper:to catch mumps= attraper les oreillonsto catch malaria= attraper la malariato catch bronchitis= attraper une bronchiteto catch a cold= attraper un rhumeSimilarly where English uses contract, French uses contracter:to contract Aids= contracter le Sidato contract pneumonia= contracter une pneumonieto contract hepatitis= contracter une hépatiteFor attacks of chronic illnesses, French uses faire une crise de:to have a bout of malaria= faire une crise de malariato have an asthma attack= faire une crise d’asthmeto have an epileptic fit= faire une crise d’épilepsieTreatmentto be treated for polio= se faire soigner contre la polioto take something for hay fever= prendre quelque chose contre le rhume des foinshe’s taking something for his cough= il prend quelque chose contre la touxto prescribe something for a cough= prescrire un médicament contre la touxmalaria tablets= des cachets contre la malariato have a cholera vaccination= se faire vacciner contre le cholérato be vaccinated against smallpox= se faire vacciner contre la varioleto be immunized against smallpox= se faire immuniser contre la varioleto have a tetanus injection= se faire vacciner contre le tétanosto give sb a tetanus injection= vacciner qn contre le tétanosto be operated on for cancer= être opéré d’un cancerto operate on sb for appendicitis= opérer qn de l’appendicite -
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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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15 Shops, trades and professions
In English you can say at the baker’s or at the baker’s shop ; in French the construction with chez (at the house or premises of…) is common but you can also use the name of the particular shop:at the baker’s= chez le boulanger or à la boulangerieI’m going to the grocer’s= je vais chez l’épicier or à l’épicerieI bought it at the fishmonger’s= je l’ai acheté chez le poissonnier or à la poissonneriego to the chemist’s= va à la pharmacie or chez le pharmacienat or to the hairdresser’s= chez le coiffeur/la coiffeuseto work in a butcher’s= travailler dans une boucherieChez is also used with the names of professions:at or to the doctor’s= chez le médecinat or to the lawyer’s= chez le notaireat or to the dentist’s= chez le dentisteNote that there are specific names for the place of work of some professions:the lawyer’s office= l’étude f du notairethe doctor’s surgery (GB) or office (US)= le cabinet du médecinCabinet is also used for architects and dentists. If in doubt, check in the dictionary.PeopleTalking of someone’s profession, we could say he is a dentist. In French this would be either il est dentiste or c’est un dentiste. Only when the sentence begins with c’est, can the indefinite article (un or une) be used.Paul is a dentist= Paul est dentisteshe is a dentist= elle est dentiste or c’est une dentisteshe’s a geography teacher= elle est professeur de géographie or c’est un professeur de géographieWith adjectives, only the c’est construction is possible:she is a good dentist= c’est une bonne dentisteIn the plural, if the construction begins with ce sont then you need to use des (or de before an adjective):they are mechanics= ils sont mécaniciens or ce sont des mécaniciensthey are good mechanics= ce sont de bons mécaniciensTrades and professionswhat does he do?= qu’est-ce qu’il fait?what’s your job?= qu’est-ce que vous faites dans la vie?I’m a teacher= je suis professeurto work as a dentist= travailler comme dentisteto work for an electrician= travailler pour un électriciento be paid as a mechanic= être payé comme mécanicienhe wants to be a baker= il veut devenir boulangerBig English-French dictionary > Shops, trades and professions
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one [wʌn]1. adjective• one hot summer afternoon she... par un chaud après-midi d'été, elle...► one... the other• one girl was French, the other was Swiss une des filles était française, l'autre était suisse• the sea is on one side, the mountains on the other d'un côté, il y a la mer, de l'autre les montagnes► one thing ( = something that)one thing I'd like to know is where he got the money ce que j'aimerais savoir, c'est d'où lui vient l'argent• if there's one thing I can't stand it's... s'il y a une chose que je ne supporte pas, c'est...► one person ( = somebody that)one person I hate is Roy s'il y a quelqu'un que je déteste, c'est Royb. ( = a single) un seul• the one man/woman who could do it le seul/la seule qui puisse le faire• the one and only Charlie Chaplin! le seul, l'unique Charlot !c. ( = same) même2. noun• one, two, three un, deux, trois• I for one don't believe it pour ma part, je ne le crois pas━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• any one of them n'importe lequel (or laquelle)3. pronoun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• would you like one? en voulez-vous un(e) ?► adjective + one━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► one is not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• that's a difficult one! ( = question) ça c'est difficile !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The article and adjective in French are masculine or feminine, depending on the noun referred to.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'd like a big one ( = glass) j'en voudrais un grand• I'd like the big one ( = slice) je voudrais la grosse► the one + clause, phrase• the one who or that... celui qui (or celle qui)...• the one on the floor celui (or celle) qui est par terre• is this the one you wanted? c'est bien celui-ci (or celle-ci) que vous vouliez ?► one another l'un (e) l'autre4. compounds• his company is a one-man band (inf) il fait marcher l'affaire tout seul ► one-man show noun [of performer] spectacle m solo, one-man show m• it's a one-off (object) il n'y en a qu'un comme ça ; (event) ça ne va pas se reproduire ► one-on-one, one-one (US) adjective= one-to-one(US) = one-off► one-to-one, one-on-one, one-one (US) adjective [conversation] en tête-à-tête ; [training, counselling] individuel• to have a one-track mind n'avoir qu'une idée en tête ► one-upmanship (inf) noun art m de faire mieux que les autres• it's a one-way ticket to disaster (inf) c'est la catastrophe assurée ► one-woman adjective [business] individuel* * *Note: When one is used as a personal pronoun it is translated by on when it is the subject of the verb: one never knows = on ne sait jamais. When one is the object of the verb or comes after a preposition it is usually translated by vous: it can make one ill = cela peut vous rendre maladeFor more examples and all other uses, see the entry below[wʌn] 1.1) ( single) un/une2) (unique, sole) seulshe's one fine artist — US c'est une très grande artiste
3) ( same) même4) ( for emphasis)2.1) ( indefinite) un/une m/fcan you lend me one? — tu peux m'en prêter un/une?
every one of them — tous/toutes sans exception (+ v pl)
2) ( impersonal) ( as subject) on; ( as object) vousone would like to think that... — on aimerait penser que...
you're a one! — (colloq) toi alors!
I for one think that... — pour ma part je crois que...
4) ( demonstrative)the grey one — le gris/la grise
this one — celui-ci/celle-ci
which one? — lequel/laquelle?
that's the one — c'est celui-là/celle-là
5) ( in knitting)knit one, purl one — une maille à l'endroit, une maille à l'envers
6) ( in currency)one-fifty — ( in sterling) une livre cinquante; ( in dollars) un dollar cinquante
7) (colloq) ( drink)he's had one too many — il a bu un coup (colloq) de trop
8) (colloq) ( joke)have you heard the one about...? — est-ce que tu connais l'histoire de...?
9) (colloq) ( blow)to land ou sock somebody one — en coller une à quelqu'un (colloq)
10) (colloq) (question, problem)3.1) ( number) un m; ( referring to feminine) une fto throw a one — ( on dice) faire un un
2) ( person)4.her loved ones — ceux qui lui sont/étaient chers
as one adverbial phrase [rise] comme un seul homme; [shout, reply] tous ensemble5.one by one adverbial phrase [pick up, wash] un par un/une par une••to be one up on somebody — (colloq) avoir un avantage sur quelqu'un
to have a thousand ou million and one things to do — avoir un tas de choses à faire
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