Quantifiers and intensifiers Flashcards by Sami Chikhaoui

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légèrement

A

slightly

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plutôt

A

fairly (+- rather)

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à peine

A

barely / hardly / scarcely

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quasiment, presque

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almost / nearly

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la moindre (chance)

A

the slightlest (chance)

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une courte tête d’avance

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a razor-thin marge

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de justesse

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by the skin of your teeth

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une part

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a fraction

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une tranche

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a slice

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un minimum

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a modicum (of skills)

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un repas léger / un casse-croûte

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a spot of (lunch)

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dont aucun (n’est) …

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non of which (is) …

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insignifiant

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paltry (a … amount)

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un soupçon de, une once de

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a tad, an ounce of

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sans l’ombre de, le moindre …

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without a hint of

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un sur 5

un cinquième

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1 in 5

1 out of 5

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une goutte d’eau dans la mer

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a drop in the ocean

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un grain, une poussière, un tout petit peu

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a speck

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la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase, le comble

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the last straw

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des revenus bas

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a meagre income

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un manque

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a shortage of

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la pénurie, la disette

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ø dearth ø

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qui se raréfie(nt), s’amenuise(nt)

A

thinning

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qui se réduit

A

receding

sur le déclin

on the wane

qui part à vau l'eau

going to the dogs

siminuer, rétrécir, s'amenuiser

shrink, shrank, shrunk

(inf) une tonne

a gazillion

un grand nombre

a myriad of (things), a plethora

l'énième

the umpteenth

innombrables, nombreux

countless

des tas

heaps, loads of

(acheter en) gros / grandes quantités

(to buy in) bulk

une nuée de ...

a host of

une grande quantité

a large amount of ..

un excès

a surfeit

remplir à ras, bachoter (revision)

to cram

ça en dit long sur ...

it speaks volume about

déployer des efforts, faire des pieds et des mains

to go to great lenghts

un essaim | pulluler

a swarm | to swarm

des multitudes de (gens ...)

droves

se rendre en nombre, groupes

to flock

une batterie de

an array

ça couvre toute la gamme

it runs the whole gamut

un large éventail

a wide range

de gros morceaux

chunks, lumps

il y a de rares references

there are scant references to ...

truffé de, pasemé de

the document is peppered with, studded with

moins de choses

fewer things

moins (+ uncountables)

less (øfood, øhappiness, ømoney)

peu de (+ uncountables)

little time / hindsight / progress / information

de nombreuses choses | beaucoup (d'argent)

many things | a lot of (ømoney)