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Abstract notions - Truth Flashcards

1
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vrai -> la/une vérité -> franc/vrai -> sans mentir -> la véracité

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true -> truth -> truthful -> truthfully -> truthfulness

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faux -> une contre-vérité _> mensonger -> de façon mensonger -> le caractère mensonger

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untrue -> an untruth -> untruthful -> untruthfully -> untruthfulness

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authentique -> authentiquement -> l’authenticité

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authentic = genuine -> genuinely -> genuineness = authenticity

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franc (direct) -> franchement -> la franchise

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straightforward -> straightforwardly -> straightforwardness

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l’honnêteté # la fourberie = le double jeu

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plain-dealing # double-dealing

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un forube

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a double-dealer

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franc -> franchement -> la franchise

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frank -> frankly -> frankness

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sincère -> sincèrement -> la sincerité

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sincere -> sincerely -> sincerity

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droit -> la droiture

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upright -> uprightness

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réel, vrai -> réellement -> la réalité

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real = actual (faux ami) -> really = actually (faux ami) -> reality = actuality

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11
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un fait -> factuel

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a fact -> factual

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12
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vrai # faux

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right # wrong

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13
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se réaliser

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to come true

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14
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sonner vrai # faux

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to ring* true # false

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15
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la vérité toute nue,

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the naked = plain = bare truth

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la vérité brute (sans vernis)

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the unvarnished truth

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une vérité universelle

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a universal truth

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18
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l’amère vérité

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the bitter truth

19
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une évrité désagréable à entendre

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a unwelcome truth

20
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la pure / triste / déplaisante vérité

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the honest = plain / sad / unpleasant truth

21
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rechercher la vérité (3 verbes)

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to pursue = to search for = to seek the truth

22
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découvrir la vérité

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to discover = to get at = to find out the truth

23
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refuser de voir la vérité

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to close one’s eyes to the truth = to ignore the truth

24
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la minute de vérité

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the moment of truth

25
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avoir raison # avoir tort

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to be right # to be wrong

26
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établir la vérité (2 verbes)

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to ascertain = to establish the truth

27
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dissimuler la vérité

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to hide the truth

28
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déguiser / déformer la vérité

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to disguise / to distort = to twist the truth

29
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son rêve s’est réalisé

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His dream has come true

30
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c’est trop beau pour être vrai

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It’s too good to be true

31
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démêler le vrai du faux (2 expressions)

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to tell truth from falsehood = to sort out truth from falsehood

32
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prendre qqch pour parole d’évangile

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to take sth as gospel truth

33
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la vérité, toute la vérité et rien que la vérité

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the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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prêcher le faux pour savoir le vrai

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to tell a lie (in order) to get at the truth

35
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découvrir la vérité

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to get at = to discover the truth

36
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il n’y a que la vérité qui blesse

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nothing hurts like the truth

37
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la vérité n’est pas toujours bonne à dire

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the truth is sometimes best left unsaid

38
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A dire vrai, ils…

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To tell the truth, they …

39
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la vérité finit toujours pas se découvrir

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Truth will out

40
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en fait

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as a matter of fact = actually = in actual fact

41
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la vérité sort de la bouche des enfants

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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings comes forth truth

42
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il n’y a pas un mot de vrai dans ce qu’il dit

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There is not a word of truth in what he says

43
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je vais lui dire ses quatre vérités

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I’ll tell him a few home truths

Vocabulaire Anglais Perso (38 decks)

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