English Flashcards

(45 cards)

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L’anglais, la langue anglaise

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English, the English language

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Une langue maternelle

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A mother-tongue

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Un pays anglophone

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An English-speaking country

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Un anglophone

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A native English speaker, an Anglophone

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Le langage soutenue

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Formal language

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Le langage familier

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Informal, colloquial language

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L’argot

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Slang

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L’anglais parlé / écrit

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Spoke / written English

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Une expression

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A phrase, an expression

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Une formule, un slogan

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A catch phrase

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Un mot à la mode

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A buzz word

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Une expression figée, toute faite

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A set phrase

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Un cliché

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A cliché

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14
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La langue de bois

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Cant

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Un néologisme

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A neologism

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Inventer un mot

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To coin a word

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Un pléonasme

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A pleonasm

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18
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Epeler un mot

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To spell a word

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L’orthographe

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Une litote

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An understatement

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Un euphémisme

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Vouloir dire, signifier

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Le sens

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Dénué de sens

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En d'autres termes
In other words
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C'est-à-dire
That is to say
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Comment dirais-je ?
How can I put it?
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Traduire un texte en arabe
To translate a text into Arabic
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Traduire un texte du japonais
To translate a text from Japanese
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Mal traduire quelque chose
To mistranslate something
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Parler bien l'espagnol
To speak Spanish well, to speak good Spanish
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Parler le portugais couramment
To speak Portuguese fluently, to speak fluent Portuguese
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L'aisance de quelqu'un à s'exprimer en suédois
Somebody's fluency in Swedish
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Compétence en anglais
Proficiency in English
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Un test de compétence
A proficiency test
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Le TOEFL
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
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Parler un mauvais hollandais
To speak poor Dutch
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Parler mal le chinois
To speak broken Chinese
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S'exprimer
To express oneself
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Se faire comprendre
To make oneself understood
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Rafraîchir son allemand
To brush up one's German
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Anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir
Pidgin English (A mixture of English and local languages which enables people who do not share a common language to communicate)
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Un dialecte
A dialect
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Le charabia
Gibberish
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L'anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones
Globish