Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Adieu Pgs. 1-27
Vocabulary words for Balzac's Adieu
65
Language - French
9th Grade
10/24/2011
Click here to study/print these flashcards.

Create your own flash cards! Sign up here.

Additional Language - French Flashcards

 

 

Cards

Term
en avant
 Definition
forward (en avant!)
Term
il s'agit de
 Definition
I'd like to
Term
le pas accelere
 Definition
a faster pace
Term
franchir les sillons
 Definition
to cross the ditches
Term
un cerf
 Definition
a stag/ deer
Term
les paroles
 Definition
the words
Term
le chasseur
 Definition
the hunter
Term
paisiblement
 Definition
peacefully
Term
la lisiere
 Definition
the edge (une lisiere de la foret)
Term
achever
 Definition
to finish (achever de fumer)
Term
egare
 Definition
misled (egare depuis longtemps dans les halliers de la foret)
Term
s'adresser a
 Definition
to speak to
Term
railleuse
 Definition
sarcastic / mocking
Term
le ventre proeminent
 Definition
the potbelly
Term
un embonpoint
 Definition
portliness
Term
arpenter
 Definition
to pace (aussi arpentait-il avec peine)
Term
avec peine
 Definition
with difficulty
Term
moissonne
 Definition
harvested (un vaste champ recemment moissonne)
Term
gener
 Definition
to bother
Term
le surcroit
 Definition
the increase
Term
les gouttes de sueur
 Definition
the beads of sweat
Term
l'equilibre
 Definition
the balance
Term
se pencher
 Definition
to lean over
Term
tantot... tantot
 Definition
sometimes_____, sometimes_____
Term
les soubresaut
 Definition
the jerks/ jolts
Term
cahote
 Definition
jolted (une voiture vraiment cahote)
Term
un orage
 Definition
a storm
Term
effrayant
 Definition
frightening
Term
etendre
 Definition
to stretch/spread/roll out (en etandant, de l'ouest a l'est)
Term
le rideau grisatre
 Definition
the grayish curtain
Term
comprimer vers
 Definition
to compress towards
Term
les bas-fonds
 Definition
the lowlands
Term
les futaies
 Definition
the clusters of trees
Term
franchir
 Definition
to cross
Term
la fournaise
 Definition
the blaze (la temperature d'une fournaise)
Term
muet
 Definition
silent (les insects etaient muets)
Term
les cimes
 Definition
the tops (les cimes des arbres)
Term
a peine
 Definition
hardly
Term
compatir a
 Definition
sympathetic to (with)
Term
les maux
 Definition
the bad things (the suffering)
Term
suer
 Definition
to sweat
Term
s'essuyer
 Definition
to dry
Term
s'appuyer contre
 Definition
to lean against (et s'appuyant contre un arbre du champ)
Term
le fosse
 Definition
the gap (le large fosse qui l'en separait)
Term
le talus
 Definition
the slope (les herbes qui courronnaient le talus)
Term
le poteau
 Definition
the post (sur un poteau...)
Term
le fusil
 Definition
the rifle
Term
s'elancer d'un bond
 Definition
to dash forward in a single bound
Term
s'embrancher sur
 Definition
to join up with
Term
la casquette
 Definition
the cap
Term
s'eventer
 Definition
to fan oneself (vent- wind)
Term
appartenir a
 Definition
to belong to
Term
goguenard
 Definition
railleur, moquer
Term
malgre
 Definition
despite (syn. en depit de)
Term
se moquer de
 Definition

to make fun of

(la moquerie, le moquer)

(syn. railler)
Term
s'eloigner de
 Definition
to move/take away
Term
fureter sur
 Definition
to ferret out
Term
au lieu de+infinitif
 Definition

instead of

 

(syn. a la place de)
Term
le levrier
 Definition
the greyhound
Term
le proces
 Definition
a case/ lawsuit
Term
la borne
 Definition

the boundary

(borne with accent- adj. meaning limited)
Term
se debarrasser de
 Definition
to get rid of
Term
un soupir
 Definition

a sigh

 

(pousser un soupir)
Supporting users have an ad free experience!