The Human Being - Adulthood, old age Flashcards

(67 cards)

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Manhood

A

La virilité

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Womanhood

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La féminité

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3
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Ageing

Aged

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Vieillissant

Âgé

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4
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To get old / to grow old / to age

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vieillir

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5
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old age

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la vieillesse

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6
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the old
old people
the elderly

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les vieux
les gens âgés
le troisième âge

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A pensioner / an old-age pensioner

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un retraité

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To turn grey / white

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devenir gris / blanchir

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9
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decrepit

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décati

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10
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to dodder

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marcher avec difficulté

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11
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crippled

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invalide

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12
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impotent

impotence

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impuissant

l’impuissance

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senile

senility

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sénile

la sénilité

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to dote
doting
dotage

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radoter
gâteux
le gâtisme

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to go / be gaga

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devenir / être gaga

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a line / a wrinkle

wrinkled

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une ride

ridé

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17
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a hearing aid

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un appareil auditif

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18
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un dentier

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a denture

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19
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une durée de vie

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a life span

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20
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autonome / encore vert

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autonomous / still green

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21
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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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sans vie

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lifeless

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mortel

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fatal / lethal

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un cadavre

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a corpse

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la dépouille mortelle
the remains
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le deuil
bereavement / mourning
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la famille du défunt
the bereaved
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porter le deuil
to mourn
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l'entourage du défunt
the mourners
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incinérer | l'incinération
to cremate | cremation
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les pompes funèbres
the undertaker's (shop)
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enterrer / inhumer | un enterrement / une inhumation
to bury | a burial
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un cimetière
a graveyard / a cemetary
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une tombe
a grave
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la veuve | le veuf
the widow | the widower
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un orphelinat
an orphanage
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un héritier | une héritière
a heir | a heiress
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hériter de qqch | un héirtage
to inherit sth | an inheritance
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déshériter qqn
to disinherit sby
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léguer qqch à qqn
to leave sby sth
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un legs
a legacy
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la succession
the estate
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la crise de la quarantaine
mid-life crisis
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dans la force de l'âge
in the prime of life / in one's prime
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bien conservé
well-preserved
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atteindre la quarantaine
to be pushing forty
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ne pas avoir encore quarante ans
to be on the right side of 40
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avoir dépassé les 40 ans
to be on the wrong side of 40
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un quadragénaire
a forty-something
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prendre de l'âge
to be getting on his years
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ne plus être tout jeune
to be past one's prime
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une maison de retraite
an old people's home
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sur ses vieux jours
in his / her old age
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un vieux de la vieille
an old-timer
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les plus de 70 ans
the over-70s
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un front qui se dégarnit
a receding hairline
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la perte de mémoire
memory loss
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être à l'article de la mort
to be at death's door
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rendre son dernier soupir
to breathe one's last
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mourir prématurément
to die an untimely death
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être en deuil
to be in mourning
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présenter ses condoléances
to offer one' sympathy
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le regretté Jim Morrison
the late Jim Morrison
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perdre son conjoint
to be widowed
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il a passé l'âge pour ça
he's past the age for that
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avoir le même âge que
to be the same age as (not than)
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les morts les vieux les personnes âgées
the dead the old the elderly