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1 sunny
1 lit [weather, morning, period] ensoleillé ; [place, side, garden, room] ( facing the sun) exposé au soleil ; ( sunlit) ensoleillé ; sunny interval période f ensoleillée ; it's going to be sunny il va faire (du) soleil ; the outlook is sunny on prévoit du soleil ;2 fig [person, disposition, temperament] joyeux/-euse ; to look on the sunny side (of things) regarder or voir le bon côté des choses ; sunny side up [egg] sur le plat. -
2 sunny
(a) (day, place etc) ensoleillé; (building) qui reçoit beaucoup de soleil; (side of street or building) exposé au soleil;∎ it's a sunny day, it's sunny il fait (du) soleil ou beau;∎ Meteorology sunny intervals or periods éclaircies fpl∎ to look on the sunny side (of things) voir le bon côté des choses;∎ British he's on the sunny side of sixty il n'a pas encore la soixantaine -
3 on
on [ɒn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb2. preposition3. adjective4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When on is an element in a phrasal verb, eg get on, go on, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, such as later on, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. ( = in place) the lid is on le couvercle est mis• if you read on, you'll see that... si tu continues (de lire), tu verras que...• they lived together on and off for six years ils ont vécu ensemble six ans, par intermittence► on and on• they talked on and on for hours ils ont parlé pendant des heures► to be on about sth (inf) ( = talk)he's always on at me il est toujours après moi (inf)► to be on to sb (inf) ( = speak to) parler à qn• he's been on to me about the broken window il m'a parlé du carreau cassé► to be on to sb/sth (inf) ( = have found out about)2. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When on occurs in a set combination, eg on the right, on occasion, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what page are we on? à quelle page sommes-nous ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you can't wear that shirt, there's a stain on it tu ne peux pas porter cette chemise, elle a une tache► on + island• on an island dans or sur une île• on the island of... dans or sur l'île de...c. ( = on board) dans• he came on the train/bus il est venu en train/en bus• I went on the train/bus j'ai pris le train/le busd. ( = at the time of)► on + noun• on my arrival home à mon arrivée à la maison► on + -ing• on completing the course, she got a job in an office à la fin de son stage elle a trouvé un emploi dans un bureaug. (TV, radio) on the radio/TV à la radio/la télévision• on Radio 3/Channel 4 sur Radio 3/Channel 4h. ( = earning) he's on $19,000 a year il gagne 19 000 dollars par ani. ( = taking, using) the doctor put her on antibiotics le médecin l'a mise sous antibiotiquesj. ( = playing) with Louis Armstrong on trumpet avec Louis Armstrong à la trompettek. ( = about, concerning) surl. ( = doing) he's on a course il suit un coursm. ( = at the expense of) it's on me c'est moi qui paien. (indicating membership) to be on the team/committee faire partie de l'équipe/du comité3. adjectivea. ( = functioning) [machine, engine] en marche ; [radio, TV, light] allumé ; [handbrake] mis ; [electricity] branché ; [tap, gas at mains] ouvert• the "on" switch l'interrupteur mb. ( = taking place) there's a match on at Wimbledon il y a un match à Wimbledon• is the party still on? est-ce que la fête a toujours lieu ?• what's on? (at theatre, cinema) qu'est-ce qu'on joue ? ; (on TV) qu'est-ce qu'il y a à la télévision ?c. ( = on duty) I'm on every Saturday je travaille tous les samedis4. compounds* * *Note: When on is used as a straightforward preposition expressing position ( on the beach, on the table) it is generally translated by sur: sur la plage, sur la table; on it is translated by dessus: there's a table over there, put the key on it = il y a une table là-bas, mets la clé dessuson is often used in verb combinations in English ( depend on, rely on etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (depend, rely etc)If you have doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with on ( on demand, on impulse, on top etc) consult the appropriate noun or other entry (demand, impulse, top etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as dates, islands, rivers etc. Many of these use the preposition on. For the index to these notesFor examples of the above and further uses of on, see the entry below[ɒn] 1.1) ( position) sur [table, coast, motorway etc]2) (indicating attachment, contact)3) ( on or about one's person)4) (about, on the subject of) surhave you heard him on electoral reform? — est-ce que tu l'as entendu parler de la réforme électorale?
5) (employed, active)to be on — faire partie de [team]; être membre de [board, committee]
6) ( in expressions of time)7) ( immediately after)on hearing the truth she... — quand elle a appris la vérité, elle...
8) (taking, using)9) ( powered by)10) ( indicating support) sur11) ( indicating a medium)12) (income, amount of money)to be on £20,000 a year — gagner 20000 livres sterling par an
13) (paid for by, at the expense of)14) ( in scoring)2.1) (taking place, happening)2) ( being performed)what's on? — ( on TV) qu'est-ce qu'il y a à la télé?; (at the cinema, at the theatre) qu'est-ce qu'on joue?
3) (functional, live)to be on — [TV, oven, light] être allumé; [handbrake] être serré; [dishwasher, radio] marcher; [tap] être ouvert
in the ‘on’ position — en position ‘allumé’
4) GB ( permissible)it's just ou simply not on — ( out of the question) c'est hors de question; ( not the done thing) ça ne se fait pas; ( unacceptable) c'est inadmissible
5) (attached, in place)3.to be on — [lid] être mis
1) ( on or about one's person)on with your coats! — allez, mettez vos manteaux!
2) ( ahead in time)20 years on he was still the same — 20 ans plus tard, il n'avait pas changé
3) ( further)4) ( on stage)4.on and off adverbial phrase (also off and on)5.she's been working at the novel on and off for years — ça fait des années que son roman est en chantier
on and on adverbial phraseto go on and on — [speaker] parler pendant des heures; [speech] durer des heures
••what's he on about? — GB qu'est-ce qu'il raconte?
he's been on to me about the lost files — GB il m'a contacté à propos des dossiers perdus
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