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un niveau de vie...
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... standard of living
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un train de vie aise
un train de vie modeste |
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a comfortable lifestyle
a hard/modest lifestyle |
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live well/comfortably
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live in need
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| la (feuille de) declaration d'impots |
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to make ends meet
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to make ends meet
(boucler son budget) |
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| avoir des soucis d'argent |
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| to have financial worries |
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calculer ses depenses
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| to regulate one's expenses |
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| tenir les comptes du menage |
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| to keep the household accounts |
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to pay a bill
(regler une facture) |
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to pay a bill
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la repartition des depenses pour:
1) du loyer
2) de la nourriture
3) l'habillement
4) la sante
5) les loisirs |
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the allocation/distribution of expenses for:
1) the rent
2) food
3) clothes
4) health
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costs
expenditures
(les depenses) |
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expenditures
costs
(les frais) |
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| petty (useless, random, etc...) expenses |
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faire des economies
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to waste (spend) money
(jeter l'argent par les fenetres) |
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| jeter l'argent par les fenetres |
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to throw away (waste) money
(gaspiller) |
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to be thrifty
(not etre un(e) depensier(e) |
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to be a spender
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faire des grosses depenses
faire des petits depenses |
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to make large expenditures
(to spend lots)
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to incur expenses
to have expenses |
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| etre un(e) consommateur(-trice) averti(e) |
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to be an aware buyer
a conscientious shopper |
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(avoir/faire) des dettes
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payer par mensualites
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couter cher
couter pas cher |
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it is expensive
it is cheap |
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profiter des soldes
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| to take advantage of sales |
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| to open a checking account |
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| ouvrir un compte d'epargne |
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| to open a savings account |
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a checkbook
(un carnet de cheques) |
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| to make out a check (to someone) |
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to endorse
to sign (a check to validate it) |
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to cash (a check)
(encaisser) |
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| faire un emprunt a la banque |
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| to repay (what you borrowed) |
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| the payment date (date repayment is due) |
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| to make (pay) interest payments |
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to cash (a check)
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