after après
again encore
alone seul : tout seul = all alone
autumn automne :
baker boulanger
bakery boulangerie
basket panier : usually a wicker basket.
bear ours
bear cub ourson
bed lit
bed sheet drap de lit
beverage, drink boisson
bird oiseau
black noir
blue bleu
bone os
bottle bouteille
bread pain : [Pain à l'Ancienne]
bridge pont : (including a "bridging" day-off between a weekday holiday and the weekend)
bridge, beaked pont à bec : We think this is a small arched bridge with "beaked" supports. Examples: 14th-c at Flassans-sur-Issole in the Var (dept 83); Pont du Riou at Sigale in the Alpes-Maritimes (dept 06) with Romanesque arch and ogivale arch; St.Hippolyte-du-Fort in the Cevennes; Bourdeilles in the Dordogne (dept 24).
brown brun, marron
bus autobus : (car = intercity bus, touring coach; autobus = city bus
bus car : (car = intercity bus, touring coach; autobus = city bus
butcher shop boucherie :
cake gâteau
canyon gorge : (gorge, canyon)
car voiture, automobile
cave grotte
chair chaise
change monnaie : coins or bills returned
chicken poulet
chicken pox varicelle
chopped, minced haché : steak haché = ground beef, or hamburger
Christmas Noël
cliff falaise
cloth, fabric tissu
coconut noix de coco
coconut milk lait de noix de coco
cold froid
cold (illness) rhume : catch a cold: "attraper un rhume"
cold cuts charcuterie
coward lâche :
dam barrage : (when marked on a map, at a river of course)
direction sens : sens unique = one-way
discount remise
donkey âne
to dress à habiller
drinking fountain abreuvoir :
each chaque
east est
Easter egg oeuf de Pâques
to eat à manger
egg oeuf
empty vide
everybody tout le monde
extra en plus :
farm ferme
festival fête
figurine santon : [Santon]
flea market brocante : [Markets]
fog brouillard
food alimentation : (food, groceries, nourishment, nutrition)
food nourriture
forest forêt
full complet : no more room, applied to public places, buses, hotels, etc.
full board pension complet : lodging including breakfast, lunch, dinner (aka American Plan)
garden jardin
garrigue garrigue : An extremely stony, limestone ground of the Mediterranean where only the hardiest plants (such as thistle, kermes oak and gorse) can survive. [compare: maquis]
genuine véritable
German measles rubéole
gift cadeau
glass verre
glass verre
gold or
goose oie
grapefruit pamplemousse
grass herbe
green vert, verte
grocery store epicerie
guest invité
gutter gouttière :
haircut coupe de cheveux
hairdresser coiffeur
half pension pension, demi : lodging including breakfast and one meal, typically dinner (originally for students having lunch at school) (aka Modified American Plan; Demi-Pension)
hang-glider delta-plane
haze brume
high haut
hill colline
honey miel
horse cheval
hot chaud
hour heure
house maison :
inn; hostel auberge : auberge de jeunesse = youth hostel
joke blague
journey voyage : dairy farm; barn
lake lac
left gauche
licorice réglisse
lilght bulb ampoule : [Markets]
low-cut échancré : for necklines
man homme
maquis maquis : A scrub of thick, dense shrubs and small trees growing in the sandy soil of the Mediterranean region, including myrtles, heaths, arbutus (strawberry trees), rose laurel, ilex, cistus, Holm oak and cork oak. [compare: garrigue]
market foire : [Markets]
mattress matelas : [Markets]
meal repas
measles rougeole
menhir menhir : standing stone; tall column of a single stone (per menhir), possibly neolighic and dating somewhere from 2000 to 4000 years ago. [photo]
mill moulin
mirror miroir, glace
to miss à manquer
mountain montagne
mountain bike VTT - vélo tout terrain : mountain bike [Velo]
network réseau
next prochain
night light veilleuse : [Markets]
nombre number : one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
un/une, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix
north nord
not included non compris : (for tips or wine: not included in the price)
oil huile
open ouvert
orange orange
oven four :
pass col : (mountain pass)
peat tourbe
peninsula presqu'ile : literally "nearly island", quite poetic.
pillow oreiller
pillow case taie d'oreiller
to plug in à brancher
pot-hole aven : [Spelunking]
potsherd tesson : fragments or broken pieces of pottery
printemps spring :
railway car wagon
read lire
recipe recette
red rouge
reed roseau
right droit
roadblock barrage : roadsign la route est barrée
room, bedroom chambre :
saddle, bicycle seat selle
scale écaille
seat siège
shadow ombre
sheet drap : (for the bed)
shop boutique
shuttle navette : a shuttle bus or shuttle boat
size taille
south sud
star étoile
station gare
store magasin : (bigger than a boutique)
- grand magasin = department store
straw paille
strawberry plant fraisier
suburb banlieue
summer eté
sundial cadran solaire :
teddy bear nounours
ticket billet : billet = train or plane ticket; ticket = métro or bus ticket; contravention = traffic ticket
ticket contravention : contravention = traffic ticket; billet = train or plane ticket; ticket = métro or bus ticket
ticket ticket : ticket = métro or bus ticket; billet = train or plane ticket; contravention = traffic ticket
time-table horaire : (train schedule)
tip pourboire : the tip is usually included in restaurant bill (service compris), usually about 15%; it's customary to leave the small change as an addition tip, if the service is good.
today aujourd'hui
tomorrow demain
traffic jam embouteillage
traffic light feu rouge : [Markets]
trompe-l'oeil trompe-l'oeil : A realistic looking painting (often on a building wall) created as an illusion
tuff tuf : (porous, volcanic rock)
to unplug à débrancher :
vache cow
valid valable
varnish vernis
vaulted, arched voûté : dairy farm; barn
walnut, nut noix
water eau
waterfall cascade
weekly hebdomadaire
west ouest
wet, damp humide
window pane carreau, vitre
window pane vitre, carreau
winter hiver
woman femme
write écrire :
year année
yellow jaune
yesterday hier :
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