B2-Unit 2 - DES SONS

Question 1

le brouhaha

Answer 1

hubbub

Question 2

le boucan

Answer 2

din ⧫ racket

Question 3

le claquement

Answer 3

(bruit répété) banging

(bruit isolé) slam

Question 4

le craquement

Answer 4

crack ⧫ snap

[de plancher] creak ⧫ creaking (no pl)

Question 5

le crépitement

Answer 5

[de feu] crackling (no pl)

[d’arme automatique] rattle (no pl)

Question 6

la détonation

Answer 6

[de bombe, obus] detonation

[d’arme à feu] bang

J’ai entendu une détonation. I heard a bang.

Question 7

le gémissement

Answer 7

moan

Question 8

le grincement

Answer 8

Squeak

1. [de porte, roue] creaking

[de plancher] creaking

2. le grincement des dents teeth grinding

des pleurs et des grincements de dents wailing and gnashing of teeth

Question 9

résonner

Answer 9

1. [cloche, pas] to reverberate ⧫ to resound

résonner de to resound with

2. [salle] to be resonant

Question 10

le sifflement

Answer 10

1. (= bruit) whistle ⧫ whistling (no pl)
2. [de toux, respiration] wheezing (no pl)

sifflements PLURAL MASCULINE NOUN

[de public] hissing (and booing)

Question 11

la sonnerie

Answer 11

1. (= son) ringing

La sonnerie du téléphone l’a réveillé. He was woken by the phone ringing.

sonnerie de clairon bugle call

2. (= sonnette) bell

sonnerie d’alarme alarm bell

3. (mécanisme d’horloge) striking mechanism

Question 12

le tintement

Answer 12

ringing ⧫ chiming

Question 13

tonner

Answer 13

1. [canon] to thunder
2. [personne]

tonner contre qn/qch to inveigh against sb/sth

Question 14

le tumulte

Answer 14

commotion ⧫ hubbub

Question 15

le vacarme

Answer 15

Uproar