84: old age / la vieillesse Flashcards by alexandre poppa

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les personnes âgées

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the old / old people / the elderly

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un viel homme / une vieille dame

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an old man / an old lady

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une personne du 3eme âge

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a senior citizen / a senior / a third-ager

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vieillir

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to grow old / to get old

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prendre de l’âge

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to be getting on in years

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les plus de 70ans

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the over-70s

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un septuagénaire

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a seventy-year-old man

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un octogénaire

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a eighty-year-old man

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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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grisonner

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to go grey

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un homme auX cheveux blancs

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a white-haired man

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avoir les cheveux blancs

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to have white hair

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être chauve / la calviTie

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to be bald / baldness

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une ride

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a wrinkle / a line

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les infirmités de la vieillesse

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the infirmities of old age

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vulnérable

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vulnerable

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handicapé

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disabled

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l’impuissance (sexuelle) / impuissant (sexuellement)

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impotence / impotent

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la faiblesse / faible

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weakness / weak

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s’affaiblir

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to weaken

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la maladie

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illness / sickness

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être en bonne santé / mauvaise santé

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to be in good health / in poor health

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sénile

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senile

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perdre la mémoire

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to lose one’s memory

la perte de mémoire

memory loss

la maladie d'Alzheimer

Alzheimer's (disease)

nécessiter des soins particuliers

to require special care

être grabataire

to be bed-ridden

une maison de retraite

a home for the aged

une maison médicalisée

a nursing home / an old people's home

la gériatrie

geriatrics

un gérontologue

a gerontologist / a geriatrician

l'âgisme / le racisme anti vieux

agism / ageism / age discrimination

être rejeté par la société

to be rejected by society

le pouvoir économique des personnes âgées

grey power