Abstract notions - The usual and the unexpected

Question 1

l’habitude = la coutume

Answer 1

habit (faux ami) = custom.

Attention : customs = douane

Question 2

(s’) attendre (à) qqch -> attendu # inattendu

Answer 2

to expect sth -> expected # unexpected

Question 3

la tradition -> traditionnel

Answer 3

tradition -> traditional

Question 4

prévoir -> prévu # imprévu -> prévisible

Answer 4

to foresee -> foreseen # unforeseen -> foreseeable

Question 5

ordinaire -> d’ordinaire

Answer 5

ordinary -> ordinarily

Question 6

normal -> normalement, la normalité

Answer 6

normal -> normally, normality = normalcy

Question 7

banal -> la banalité

Answer 7

banal -> banality

Question 8

courant -> commun -> un lieu commun

Answer 8

common -> commonplace -> a commonplace

Question 9

la routine ou routinier (adj)

Answer 9

routine

Question 10

routinier / monotone

Answer 10

humdrum

Question 11

habituel # inhabituel

Answer 11

usual # unusual

Question 12

spécial

Answer 12

special

Question 13

l’exception, une exception -> exceptionnel

Answer 13

exception, an exception -> exceptional

Question 14

extraordinaire

Answer 14

extraordinary

Question 15

insolite

Answer 15

out-of-the-ordinary

Question 16

étrange -> étrangement, l’étrangeté

Answer 16

strange -> strangely, strangeness

Question 17

bizarre

Answer 17

odd / peculiar / queer

Question 18

bizarrement, de manière étrange

Answer 18

oddly / peculiarly / queerly

Question 19

une bizarrerie

Answer 19

an oddity / a peculiarity

Question 20

anormal -> anormalement

Answer 20

abnormal -> abnormally

Question 21

l’anormalité ou l’/une anomalie

Answer 21

abnormality

Question 22

une bonne habitude

Answer 22

a good habit

Question 23

une habitude durable / enracinée

Answer 23

a lasting / deep-rooted habit

Question 24

se débarrasser d’une habitude

Answer 24

to shake off a habit

Question 25

dans un avenir prévisible

Answer 25

in the foreseeable future

Question 26

elle avait coutume de travailler dur

Answer 26

she was wont to work hard

Question 27

elle a téléphoné à ses enfants, comme de coutume

Answer 27

she rang her children as was her wont

Question 28

avoir l’habitude de faire qqch

Answer 28

to be in the habit of doing sth = to be accustomed to doing sth= to be used to doing sth

Question 29

nous connaissons bien ce phénomène

Answer 29

we are familiar with this phenomenon

Question 30

on n’a jamais vu ça

Answer 30

that’s unheard of

Question 31

ça n’arrive à peu près jamais (2 phrases)

Answer 31

it hardly ever happens = it nearly never happens

Question 32

c’est toujours ce à quoi l’on s’attend le moins qui arrive

Answer 32

the unexpected always happens