A | B |
Nous sommes cinq | There are five of us |
La recree; la recreation | Recess |
La cantine | The cafeteria |
Gener | To embarrass; to be sorry |
La patinoire | Ice rink |
Une classe | A group of people in a class |
Un cours | A course; e.g.; a French class |
Un pupitre | A chair-desk |
L’ecole primaire | Primary school |
L’instituteur; l’institutrice | Primary instructors |
Le college | Middle school |
Des eleves | Primary & middle school students |
Le lycee | High school |
Les lyceens; lyceennes | High schoolers |
Le dortoir | The dorm |
Pensionnaires; etre en pension | At boarding school |
Le stade | The stadium |
Au gymnase | At the gymnasium |
La salle de classe | Classroom |
Un bureau | A desk |
Au tableau | At the chalk board |
Votre cabinet | Your office |
Une coutouriere | A seamstress |
diriger | To run; direct; be in charge |
La marmaille | Bunch of brats |
epoumoner | To shout one’s self hoarse |
La pelouse | The lawn |
Un etang | A pond |
La machoire serree | Clenched(gripped) Jaw (jawbone) |
Un fourre | A thicket |
entrainer | To lead |
vaquer | To tend to; be busy with (also; to be on vacation) |
Un tricot | knitting |
decu | Disappointed; thwarted |
Grincant; grincer | Scathing; nasty;caustic; to squeak; screech |
fremissements | Quivering; ripples; tremblings |
Le seuil | The threshold |
La rocade | Bypass; ring road |
Au plus tard | At the latest |
Faire le mur | Sneak out |
Extenuer; extenue(e) | To exhaust; exhausted |
Faire la grasse matinee | To sleep in |
Atroce | atrocious |
Faire l’ecole buissonniere | To skip school |
Être complexer par son look | To have a complex about your look |
Se soler | To get drunk |
Faire un fugue | To run away |
L’intervention volontaire de grossesse | abortion |
Tomber enceinte | To get pregnant |
Les delits | misdemeanors |
Le delinquence | Juvenile crime |
Le toxicomanie | Drug addiciton |
Le peine | The penalty |
Les derniers nouveautes | The latest things |
Sentir fier | To feel proud |
La Rocade | A bypass highway |
En cachette | In secret |
Mettre au coin; aller au coin | Put in a corner; go to the corner |
L’echeque scholaire | Failure at school |
Avoir des troubles alimentaires | To have an eating disorder |
Le baggare | The fight |
Embeter | To annoy |
Les pedopsychologues | Child psychiatrists |
Les theraputes | therapists |
Le psy | The shrink; the psychiatrist |
To subcontract; to outsource | Sout-traiter; externaliser |
Ecole maternelle | Nursery school |
Un pensionnat | A boarding school |
Stre un demon; un ange | To be a devil; and angel |
crier | To yell |
Faire des caprices | To throw a tantrum |
Faire la sieste | Take a na |
pFaire des calins | To snuggle |
Se faire mal | To get hurt |
Gater un enfant | Spoil a child |
Gate pourri | Spoiled rotten |
Elever un enfant bien eleve(e) | Raise a well-behaved child |
Attendre un enfant; etre enceinte; avir une grossesse | To be expecting a child |
accoucher | To give birth |
Un accouchement | labor |
Donner des coups de pied | To kick |
Etre vilain | To be naughty; for an adult; to be ugly |
Des la petite enfance | Since early childhood (1-4 yrs) |
Donner la fessee a quelqu’un | To spank somebody |
Une punition | A punishment |
L’ado francais | The French adolescent |
Posseder | To possess |
Des vetements de marques | Designer clothes |
Un poste de television | A tv set (tv receiver) |
Un portable; un ordinateur portable | A lapto |
pCuisiner | To cook |
Tirent leur premier taffe | Take their first drag |
Par contre | However |
Papoter; tchatcher | (slang) yak |
Draguer | To flirt |
Faire un tour de scooter | Take a ride on a scooter |
Une sortie d’autoroute | Highway exit |
Une entreeune rampe d’acces | On ram |