Vocabulaire du Jour
"La Maison de Campagne" (MC)
Les Aventures du Petit Nicolas
pp 47-61 arrêter – to stop
assis - seated
aurait – would have (conditional of avoir)
la boue – mud
un carrefour – intersection
chacun - each one
un chemin - a path
un chemin de fer - railroad tracks
un chemin de terre - a dirt road
le citadin – city dweller
comptable – an accountant
coûter – to cost
cretin - dunce
cru - raw
cuillir – to pick
dehors - outside
démarrer – to start (a car)
dur - hard
un embouteillage – traffic jam
endommager – to damage
essayer – to try
éviter - to avoid
le feu – traffic light (fire)
fier (fière) – proud
gosse – kid
le goût – the taste
jardinier – gardner
la mienne – mine
mur(e) - ripe
oublier – to forget
une pancarte – road sign
paraître – to appear
la pelouse – lawn
la pétanque – a lawn bowling game
pleurer – to cry
portière – car door
potager – vegetable garden
rattraper – to recapture; catch up to
se rendre compte - to realize
réussir - to succeed
le rôti – roast
rustique – rustic
saccager – to ransack
sage – well behaved
seul(e) - only; alone
le tablier – an apron
la tache – a spot
tant mieux - so much the better
tant pis – too bad
tirer – toss/roll/throw/fire
tousser – to cough
les travaux – works (here, road construction)
la viande – meat
je te le donne en mille – I'll tell it to you in brief; to make a long story short