French Verbs Flashcards
se détendre
to relax
se défouler
to unwind
passer
to spend time
voyager
to travel
loger
to lodge
réserver
to book/reserve
acheter
to buy
visiter
to visit
perdre
to lose
prendre
to take
se renseigner
to get information
laisser
to leave (behind)/to allow
trouver
to find
chercher
to look for
Ned: it sounds like searcher!
- faire des achats
- faire des courses
- faire du shopping
- faire les magazines
to go shopping
faire du lèche vitrine
to go window-shopping
Ned: window shopping is when you just go and have a look for the enjoyment of it, like you did in Curry’s. Vitrine is a pane of glass, lèche is lick!
tomber en panne
to break down eg car
(Ned: tomber is to fall; laisser-tomber is to drop, or let fall)
rater le train
to miss the train
avoir des problèms
to have problems
avoir du mal à
to have difficulty (doing something - literally ‘I have bad at’)
remplacer
to replace
dormir
to sleep
se balader
to go for a walk
faire de la voile
to sail, do sailing
(Ned: la voile is the sail)
faire de la luge
to do sledging
(Ned I’ve changed it from ‘tobogganing’ because a toboggan is a child’s slide in French!)
faire de la planche à voile
to windsurf or do windsurfing
faire de l’aviron
to row, to do rowing
faire du patin à glacé
to ice-skate or do ice-skating
(Ned ‘glace’ is ice)
profiter
to benefit or take advantage of
(eg the good weather)
essayer de
to try
se promener
to go for a walk
se reposer
to rest
fêter
to celebrate, party
(Ned the hat on the ‘e’ represents an ‘s’ that was removed hundreds of years ago: so ‘fête’ would have been a ‘feste’ or feast!)
célébrer
to celebrate
