False Cognates - Intermediate 2 Flashcards

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An account

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Un compte rendu

Un compte de banque

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Un acompte

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A deposit, advance, down payment

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An affair

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Une aventure/liaison romantique et sexuelle (courte ou longue durée) entre 2 personnes NON mariées

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Une bonne affaire

Affaires

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A good thing/deal

Business

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An alliance

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Une alliance (confédération)

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Une alliance

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A wedding ring

An alliance (between 2 countries)

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An amateur

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Un amateur (contraire de vétéran)

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Un amateur

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A fan, lover, euthusiast, amateur

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An ancient thing

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Une chose antique

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Un ancien

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Old, former

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A bureau

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Un bureau : agency (FBI)

Une commode (chest of drawers)

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Un bureau

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A desk, office

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A circulation

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Tirage (d’un journal)

Circulation sanguine

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La circulation

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Traffic

Circulation (blood)

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A congress

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Un congrès politique

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Un congrès

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A convention, symposium, conference

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A date

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Un rendez-vous amoureux

Une datte (fruit)

Une date

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Une date

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A date

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Derange / deranged

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Rendre fou / fou

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Déranger quelqu’un

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To bother someone

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A dire

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Désastreux, épouvantable

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Dire

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Effectively

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Efficacement

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Effectivement

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Actually, really, in fact, indeed

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An experience
Une expérience de vie
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Une expérience (scientific)
An experiment
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An inconvenient person
Une personne inopportune, incommode
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Un inconvénient
A drawback, a disadvantage
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An issue
Un problème, question, enjeu, sujet
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Une issue
An exit, way out
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A large view
Grand, vaste
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Une fente large
Wide, broad
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A lunatic guy (adj) A lunatic (n)
Une personne folle, démente, cinglée Un fou, un cinglé
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Une personne lunatique
Qc : distracted, to have one's head in the clouds France : crazy, insane
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A novel
Un roman
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Une nouvelle
Some news, short story
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An occasion
Un événement
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Une occasion
An opportunity
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To pass
Passer devant qqch Réussir (cours / exam)
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Passer
To take/write/do a test (depends on the type of test) To spend time
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Pleasant person
Personne agréable
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Plaisant
Amusing
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To pretend
Faire semblant
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Prétendre
To claim, to assert (affirmer)
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To purchase
Acheter
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Pourchasser
Puruse, hunt down
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To realize, realise
Sens commun : se rendre compte, prendre conscience de, découvrir Sens moins commun : accomplir, produire, créer
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Réaliser
Réaliser, se rendre compte : carry out, accomplish, achieve, finish
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A remark (n) To remark on/upon (v)
Faire une remarque Faire des remarques sur / à propos de
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Remarquer qquch Faire remarquer
To notice To point out
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A rendezvous (n) To rendezvous (v)
Un repaire d'individus Rendez-vous galant Rendez-vous militaire Se retrouver, se réunir
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Un rendez-vous
Appointment (doctor/dentist) A date (sentimental) A meeting place
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A reunion
Des retrouvailles (école...)
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Une réunion
A meeting