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1 possessive
possessive [pə'zesɪv]∎ he's possessive about his belongings il a horreur de prêter ses affaires;∎ she's possessive about her children c'est une mère possessive2 noun►► Grammar possessive adjective adjectif m possessif;Grammar possessive pronoun pronom m possessif -
2 possessive
B adj1 ( jealous) [person, behaviour] possessif/-ive (towards à l'égard de ; with avec) ;2 ( slow to share) possessif/-ive ; he's possessive about his toys il n'aime pas prêter ses jouets ;3 Ling [pronoun, adjective] possessif/-ive. -
3 his
his [hɪz]• my hands are clean, his are dirty mes mains sont propres, les siennes sont sales► of his* * *Note: In French determiners agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify. So his when used as a determiner is translated by son + masculine singular noun (son chien), by sa + feminine singular noun (sa maison) BUT by son + feminine noun beginning with a vowel or mute h (son assiette) and by ses + plural noun (ses enfants)In French possessive pronouns reflect the gender and number of the noun they are standing for. When used as a possessive pronoun his is translated by le sien, la sienne, les siens or les siennes according to what is being referred to[hɪz] 1.determiner son/sa/ses2.all the drawings were good but his was the best — tous les dessins étaient bons mais le sien était le meilleur
the blue car is his — la voiture bleue est la sienne, la voiture bleue est à lui
I'm a colleague of his — je suis un/-e de ses collègues
that dog of his — péj son sale chien (colloq)
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4 hers
hers [hɜ:z]• my hands are clean, hers are dirty mes mains sont propres, les siennes sont sales* * *[hɜːz]Note: In French, possessive pronouns reflect the gender and number of the noun they are standing for; hers is translated by le sien, la sienne, les siens, les siennes, according to what is being referred toFor examples and particular usages, see the entry belowit's not hers — ce n'est pas à elle, ce n'est pas le sien or la sienne
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5 theirs
theirs [ðεəz]* * *[ðeəz]Note: In French, possessive pronouns reflect the gender and number of the noun they are standing for; theirs is translated by le leur, la leur, les leurs, according to what is being referred tothe money wasn't theirs to give away — ils or elles n'avaient pas à donner cet argent
I saw them with that dog of theirs — péj je les ai vus avec leur sale chien (colloq)
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6 whose
whose [hu:z]• whose is this? à qui est ceci ?• whose is this hat? à qui est ce chapeau ?• whose hat is this? à qui est ce chapeau ?• whose son are you? vous êtes le fils de qui ?• whose book is missing? à qui est le livre qui manque ?• whose fault is it? c'est la faute de qui ?* * *[huːz] 1.pronoun à qui2.whose did you take? — tu as pris celui/celle etc de qui?
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7 yours
yours [jʊəz]• this book is yours ce livre est à toi or à vous• she is a cousin of yours c'est une de tes or de vos cousines• where's that husband of yours? (inf) où est passé ton mari ?* * *[jɔːz], US [jʊərz]In French, possessive pronouns reflect the gender and number of the noun they are standing for. When yours is referring to only one person it is translated by le vôtre, la vôtre, les vôtres or, more familiarly, le tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes. When yours is referring to more than one person it is translated by le vôtre, la vôtre, les vôtresmy car is red but yours is blue — ma voiture est rouge mais la vôtre or la tienne est bleue
which house is yours? — votre or ta maison c'est laquelle?
he's a colleague of yours — c'est un de vos or tes collègues
it's not yours — ce n'est pas à vous or à toi
I'm fed up (colloq) with that dog of yours! — j'en ai marre de ton sale chien! (colloq)
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8 his
❢ In French determiners agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify. So his when used as a determiner is translated by son + masculine singular noun (son chien), by sa + feminine singular noun (sa maison) BUT by son + feminine noun beginning with a vowel or mute h (son assiette) and by ses + plural noun (ses enfants).When his is stressed, à lui is added after the noun: his house = sa maison à lui. For his used with parts of the body ⇒ The human body. In French possessive pronouns reflect the gender and number of the noun they are standing for. When used as a possessive pronoun his is translated by le sien, la sienne, les siens or les siennes according to what is being referred to. For examples and particular usages see the entry below.A det son/sa/ ses.B pron all the drawings were good but his was the best tous les dessins étaient bons mais le sien était le meilleur ; the blue car is his la voiture bleue est la sienne, la voiture bleue est à lui ; it's not his ce n'est pas à lui ; which house is his? sa maison c'est laquelle? ; I'm a colleague of his je suis un/-e de ses collègues ; I saw him with that dog of his péj je l'ai vu avec son sale chien ○ ; his was not an easy task fml sa tâche n'était pas facile ; the money was not his to give away il n'avait pas à donner cet argent. -
9 whose
whose [hu:z]à qui;∎ whose is it? à qui est-ce?;∎ whose could it be? à qui pourrait-il bien être?;∎ whose was the winning number? à qui était le numéro gagnant?(a) (in a question) à qui, de qui;∎ whose car was he driving? à qui était la voiture qu'il conduisait?;∎ whose child is she? de qui est-elle l'enfant?;∎ whose side are you on? de quel côté êtes-vous?;∎ whose fault is it? à qui la faute?;∎ on whose authority are you acting? au nom de quelle autorité agissez-vous?(b) (in a relative clause) dont;∎ isn't that the man whose photograph was in the newspaper? n'est-ce pas l'homme qui était en photo dans le journal?;∎ the girl, both of whose parents had died, lived with her aunt la fille, dont les parents étaient morts, vivait avec sa tante;∎ they had twins neither of whose names I can remember ils avaient des jumeaux mais je ne me souviens pas de leurs prénoms -
10 mine
I.mine1 [maɪn]• which dress do you prefer, hers or mine? quelle robe préférez-vous, la sienne ou la mienne ?• I think that cousin of mine is responsible (inf) je pense que c'est mon cousin qui est responsableII.mine2 [maɪn]1. nounmine fa. [+ coal] extraireb. [+ sea, beach] miner* * *Note: In French, pronouns reflect the gender and number of the noun they are standing for. So mine is translated by le mien, la mienne, les miens, les miennes, according to what is being referred to: the blue car is mine = la voiture bleue est la mienne; his children are older than mine = ses enfants sont plus âgés que les miensFor examples and particular usages, see the entry belowI [maɪn]mine's a whisky — (colloq) un whisky pour moi
II 1. [maɪn]that brother of mine — gen mon frère; péj mon imbécile de frère (colloq)
1) lit, fig mine fto work in ou down the mines — travailler dans les mines
2) ( explosive) mine f2.to lay a mine — ( on land) poser une mine; ( in sea) mouiller une mine
transitive verb1) extraire [gems, mineral]; exploiter [area]2) Military miner [area]3.intransitive verb exploiter un gisementto mine for — extraire [gems, mineral]
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11 ours
ours [ˈaʊəz]* * *['aʊəz]Note: In French, pronouns reflect the number and gender of the noun they are standing for. Thus ours is translated by le nôtre, la nôtre or les nôtres according to what is being referred to: the blue car is ours = la voiture bleue est la nôtre; their children are older than ours = leurs enfants sont plus âgés que les nôtrespronoun le nôtre/la nôtre/les nôtresours is not an easy task — sout notre tâche n'est pas facile
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12 Usage note : her
When used as a direct object pronoun, her is translated by la (l’ before a vowel). Note that the object pronoun normally comes before the verb in French and that, in compound tenses like perfect and past perfect, the past participle agrees with the pronoun:I know her= je la connaisI’ve already seen her= je l’ai déjà vueIn imperatives, the direct object pronoun is translated by la and comes after the verb:catch her!= attrape-la!(note the hyphen)I’ve given her the book= je lui ai donné le livreI’ve given it to her= je le lui ai donnéIn imperatives, the indirect object pronoun is translated by lui and comes after the verb:phone her= téléphone-luigive them to her= donne-les-lui(note the hyphens)he did it for her= il l’a fait pour elleit’s her= c’est elleWhen translating her as a determiner ( her house etc.) remember that in French possessive adjectives, like most other adjectives, agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify ; her is translated by son + masculine singular noun ( son chien), sa + feminine singular noun ( sa maison) BUT son + feminine noun beginning with a vowel or mute ‘h’ ( son assiette), and ses + plural noun ( ses enfants).For her used with parts of the body ⇒ The human body. -
13 her
her [hɜ:r]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► la precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• look at her! regardez-la !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When l' is the object of a tense consisting of avoir + past participle, e is added to the past participle.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Some French verbs take an indirect object. This means they are either followed by à + noun, or require an indirect pronoun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what are you giving Pat? -- we're going to give her a CD qu'allez-vous offrir à Pat ? -- nous allons lui offrir un CD━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• have you phoned Suzy? -- yes, I phoned her last night tu as téléphoné à Suzy ? -- oui je lui ai téléphoné hier soir━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► lui precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what are you going to say to her? qu'est-ce que tu vas lui dire ?c. (emphatic) elled. ► preposition + her elle━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► son is used instead of sa before a vowel or silent h.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[hɜː(r), hə(r)] 1. 2.determiner son/sa/ses -
14 The human body
When it is clear who owns the part of the body mentioned, French tends to use the definite article where English uses a possessive adjective:he raised his hand= il a levé la mainshe closed her eyes= elle a fermé les yeuxshe ran her hand over my forehead= elle a passé la main sur mon frontFor expressions such as he hurt his foot or she hit her head on the beam, where the owner of the body part is the subject of the verb, i.e. the person doing the action, use a reflexive verb in French:she has broken her leg= elle s’est cassé la jambe( literally she has broken to herself the leg - there is no past participle agreement because the preceding reflexive pronoun se is the indirect object).he was rubbing his hands= il se frottait les mainsshe was holding her head= elle se tenait la têteNote also the following:she broke his leg= elle lui a cassé la jambe( literally she broke to him the leg)the stone split his lip= le caillou lui a fendu la lèvre( literally the stone split to him the lip)Describing peopleFor ways of saying how tall someone is ⇒ Length measurement ; of stating someone’s weight ⇒ Weight measurement ; and of talking about the colour of hair and eyes ⇒ Colours.Here are some ways of describing people in French:his hair is long= il a les cheveux longshe has long hair= il a les cheveux longsa boy with long hair= un garçon aux cheveux longsa long-haired boy= un garçon aux cheveux longsthe boy with long hair= le garçon aux cheveux longsher eyes are blue= elle a les yeux bleusshe has blue eyes= elle a les yeux bleusshe is blue-eyed= elle a les yeux bleusthe girl with blue eyes= la fille aux yeux bleusa blue-eyed girl= une fille aux yeux bleushis nose is red= il a le nez rougehe has a red nose= il a le nez rougea man with a red nose= un homme au nez rougea red-nosed man= un homme au nez rougeWhen referring to a temporary state, the following phrases are useful:his leg is broken= il a la jambe casséethe man with the broken leg= l’homme à la jambe casséebut notea man with a broken leg= un homme avec une jambe cassée -
15 thine
thine [ðaɪn](with singular possession) ton (ta); (with plural possession) tes2 pronoun(replacing singular possession) le tien (la tienne) m,f; (replacing plural possession) les tiens (les tiennes) mpl, fpl;∎ for thee and thine pour toi et les tiens
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