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1 unknown
unknown [‚ʌn'nəʊn](a) (not known) inconnu;∎ for reasons unknown to us pour des raisons que nous ignorons ou qui nous sont inconnues;∎ these drugs are unknown to most family doctors ces médicaments sont inconnus de la plupart des généralistes;∎ Law verdict against person or persons unknown verdict m contre inconnu2 noun(b) (place, situation) inconnu m;∎ the great unknown le grand inconnu, l'inconnu m;∎ the explorers set off into the unknown les explorateurs se lancèrent vers l'inconnu3 adverb∎ unknown to his son, he sold the house à l'insu de son fils ou sans que son fils le sache, il a vendu la maison;∎ unknown to us, the bus had already gone nous ne le savions pas, mais le bus était déjà parti►► Mathematics & figurative unknown quantity inconnue f;∎ the new minister is a bit of an unknown quantity le nouveau ministre est un personnage dont on ne sait pas grand-chose;∎ the new drug is an unknown quantity on ne sait pas grand-chose des effets de ce nouveau médicament;the Unknown Soldier, the Unknown Warrior le Soldat inconnu -
2 unknown
unknown [ˈʌnˈnəʊn]1. adjective• unknown to me, he... à mon insu, il...• unknown to him, the plane had crashed l'avion s'était écrasé, ce qu'il ignorait2. nouna. the unknown l'inconnu m* * *[ʌn'nəʊn] 1.1) ( unfamiliar place or thing) inconnu m2) ( person not famous) inconnu/-e m/f3) Mathematics inconnue f2.adjective inconnuunknown to me, they had already left — à mon insu, ils étaient déjà partis
unknown quantity — Mathematics inconnue f
she is an unknown quantity — fig ( her abilities are untested) on ne sait pas ce qu'elle vaut; ( not much is known about her) on sait peu de choses sur elle
Mr X, address unknown — M. X, adresse inconnue
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3 unknown
A n2 ( person not famous) inconnu/-e m/f ;3 Math inconnue f.B adj [actor, band, force, threat, country] inconnu ; the man/place was unknown to me l'homme/l'endroit m'était inconnu ; unknown to me, they had already left à mon insu, ils étaient déjà partis ; it is not unknown for sb to do il arrive à qn de faire ; it's not unknown for him to be late ça lui arrive d'être en retard ; unknown quantity Math inconnue f ; he/she is an unknown quantity il/elle représente une inconnue ; murder by person or persons unknown Jur meurtre dont l'auteur ou les auteurs sont inconnus ; Mr X, address unknown M. X, adresse inconnue ; Stephen King, whereabouts unknown Stephen King, dont on ignore où il se trouve. -
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1) (not known: her unknown helper.) inconnu2) (not famous; not well-known: That actor was almost unknown before he played that part.) inconnu -
5 Unknown Soldier
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6 Unknown Soldier
Unknown Warrior noun Soldat m inconnu -
7 complaint against persons unknown
Jur. plainte contre XEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > complaint against persons unknown
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8 father unknown
Jur. de père inconnuEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > father unknown
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9 person unknown
[Police] personne ou personnes inconnuesEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > person unknown
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10 persons unknown
[Police] personne ou personnes inconnuesEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > persons unknown
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11 whereabouts unknown
[Police] lieu de résidence inconnuEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > whereabouts unknown
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12 an unknown quantity
(a person or thing whose characteristics, abilities etc cannot be predicted.) une inconnue -
13 previously
previously [ˈpri:vɪəslɪ]* * *['priːvɪəslɪ] -
14 purpose
purpose [ˈpɜ:pəs]1. noun( = aim) but m• what was the purpose of the meeting? quel était le but de cette réunion ?• my purpose in doing this is... la raison pour laquelle je fais ceci est...• with the purpose of... dans le but de...2. compounds* * *['pɜːpəs] 1.1) ( aim) but mfor our purposes, we can assume that... — dans l'optique qui nous intéresse, nous pouvons considérer que...
purpose unknown — usage m inconnu
to some ou good purpose — utilement
to the purpose — sout à propos
2) ( determination) (also strength of purpose) résolution f2.on purpose adverbial phrase exprès -
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quantity [ˈkwɒntɪtɪ]quantité f* * *['kwɒntətɪ] 1.noun gen, Literature quantité f2.unknown quantity — Mathematics, fig inconnue f
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16 secret
secret [ˈsi:krɪt]1. nounsecret m• to make no secret of or about sth ne pas faire secret de qch2. adjectiveb. [ballot, vote] à bulletin secretc. ( = private) I'm a secret admirer of her novels j'avoue que j'apprécie ses romans3. compounds► the Secret Service noun (British) les services mpl secrets ; (US) les services mpl chargés de la protection du président* * *['siːkrɪt] 1.1) ( unknown thing) secret mI make no secret of my membership of the party — je ne fais pas mystère de mon appartenance au parti
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17 some
some [sʌm]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. pronoun3. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective• some tea/ice cream/water du thé/de la glace/de l'eau• would you like some more meat? voulez-vous encore un peu de viande ?b. ( = a certain number of) des━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► de is sometimes used before an adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. ( = a certain) if you are worried about some aspect of this proposal... si un aspect quelconque de cette proposition vous préoccupe...• in some ways, he's right par certains côtés, il a raison• some people say that... il y a des gens qui disent que...f. ( = a considerable amount of) it took some courage to do that! il a fallu du courage pour faire ça !g. ( = a limited) this will give you some idea of... cela vous donnera une petite idée de...• that's some consolation! c'est quand même une consolation !• surely there's some hope she will recover? il y a tout de même quelque espoir qu'elle guérisse ?2. pronouna. ( = as opposed to others) certain(e)s m(f)pl• some cheered, others shouted abuse certains applaudissaient, d'autres criaient des injures━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the use of d'entre with personal pronouns.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = not all) quelques-un(e)s m(f)pl• I don't want them all, but I'd like some je ne les veux pas tous mais j'en voudrais quelques-uns━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Even if not expressed, of them must be translated in French by en.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━c. ( = a certain amount or number when object of the verb) en• have some! prenez-en !• do you need stamps? -- it's okay, I've got some est-ce que tu as besoin de timbres ? -- non, ça va, j'en aid. ( = a part) une partie► ... and then some (inf)3. adverba. ( = about) environb. ( = a bit) (inf)* * *Note: When some is used as a quantifier to mean an unspecified amount of something, it is translated by du, de l' before vowel or mute h, de la or des according to the gender and number of the noun that follows: I'd like some bread = je voudrais du pain; have some water = prenez de l'eau; we've bought some beer = nous avons acheté de la bière; they've bought some peaches = ils ont acheté des pêchesBut note that where some is followed by an adjective preceding a plural noun, de alone is used in all cases: some pretty dresses = de jolies robesWhen some is used as a pronoun it is translated by en which is placed before the verb in French: would you like some? = est-ce que vous en voulez?; I've got some = j'en ai[sʌm] 1.determiner, quantifier2) (certain: in contrast to others) certainsin some ways, I agree — d'une certaine façon, je suis d'accord
4) (a little, a slight)the candidate needs to have some knowledge of computers — le candidat doit avoir certaines or un minimum de connaissances en informatique
you must have some idea where the house is — tu dois avoir une idée de l'endroit où la maison se trouve
this money will go some way towards compensating her for her injuries — cet argent compensera un peu ses blessures
5) péj (an unspecified, unknown)a car of some sort —
6) (colloq) ( a remarkable)that's some woman ou man! — c'est quelqu'un!
7) (colloq) ( not much)some help you are! — iron c'est ça que tu appelles aider!
2.‘I'd like the work to be finished by Monday’ - ‘some hope!’ — ‘j'aimerais que le travail soit fini avant lundi’ - ‘tu rêves (colloq)!’
2) (certain ones: in contrast to others)3.1) ( approximately) environsome £50 — autour de 50 livres sterling
2) (colloq) US ( a lot) un peufrom here to the town center in 5 minutes, that's going some — (colloq) aller d'ici au centre ville en 5 minutes, il faut le faire
••some people! — ah vraiment, il y a des gens!
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18 something
something [ˈsʌmθɪŋ]1. pronoun• did you say something? tu m'as dit quelque chose ?• would you like something to drink? vous voulez boire quelque chose ?• it's something else! (inf) ( = incredible) c'est quelque chose !• something tells me that... j'ai l'impression que...• you've got something there! (inf) ce n'est pas inintéressant ce que tu dis là !• he's got something to do with it ( = is involved) il a quelque chose à voir là-dedans ; ( = is responsible) il y est pour quelque chose2. adverb• he left something over £5,000 il a laissé plus de 5 000 livres• he won something like $10,000 il a gagné quelque chose comme 10 000 dollars* * *['sʌmθɪŋ] 1.1) ( unspecified thing) quelque chosesomething new/interesting — quelque chose de nouveau/d'intéressant
2) (thing of importance, value etc)to make something of oneself ou one's life — réussir sa vie
he is quite ou really something! — c'est vraiment un numéro!
that house is quite ou really something! — cette maison c'est quelque chose!
you've got something there! — là, tu n'as pas tort!
‘I've found the key’ - ‘well that's something anyway’ — ‘j'ai trouvé la clé’ - ‘c'est déjà ça’
we gave him something for his trouble — nous lui avons donné un petit quelque chose pour le dérangement
3) (forgotten, unknown name, amount etc)2.1) ( a bit) un peusomething over/under £20 — un peu plus de/en dessous de 20 livres sterling
2) (colloq)3.he was howling something awful ou shocking — il n'arrêtait pas de hurler
something of adverbial phrase (rather, quite)she is something of an expert on... — elle est assez experte en...
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19 stranger
stranger [ˈstreɪndʒər]• hello, stranger! tiens, un revenant ! (inf)* * *['streɪndʒə(r)]noun étranger/-ère m/fa complete ou total stranger — un parfait inconnu
‘hello, stranger!’ — (colloq) ‘tiens, un revenant (colloq)!’
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20 undetermined
[ˌʌndɪ'tɜːmɪnd]1) ( unknown) indéterminé2) ( unresolved) [problem] indéterminé; [outcome] inconnu
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