Series of neighboring words - false synonyms (ex.Increasing Force/Level)
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Re: Series of neighboring words - false synonyms (ex.Increasing Force/Level)
Hi Gérard,
You forgot my favourite French word ... "soupçon" !
You forgot my favourite French word ... "soupçon" !
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Re: Series of neighboring words - false synonyms (ex.Increasing Force/Level)
Excellent! Thanks Krystyna!... I remember your way to pronounce it: suçon don't forget the "p"...
B.gg..! I realize that you help me in French... LOL
Are my levels good? not too many?
In my night, I had another one but it's gone!
~~ edit Got it! it's "vachement[!]"
Maybe absent & vide
B.gg..! I realize that you help me in French... LOL
Are my levels good? not too many?
In my night, I had another one but it's gone!
~~ edit Got it! it's "vachement[!]"
Maybe absent & vide
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Re: Series of neighboring words - false synonyms (ex.Increasing Force/Level)
Hi Krystyna, Gérard everyone
Let's think about "sec"
adj
[vêtement, cheveux, route] dry
Mon jean n'est pas encore sec. My jeans aren't dry yet.
à pied sec without getting one's feet wet
un shampoing pour cheveux secs a shampoo for dry hair
[raisins, figues] dried
des figues sèches dried figs
(sans eau ni glaçons)
[whisky] neat, straight
Un malt se boit sec. A pure malt should be drunk neat., A pure malt should be drunk straight.
[démarrage, secousse] sharp, sudden
un coup sec a sharp blow
d'un coup sec sharply
[personne] spare, lean
→ les doigts secs et longs de l'artiste
[réponse, ton] sharp, curt
avoir le cœur sec to be cold-hearted
nm
"tenir au sec" "keep in a dry place"
à sec [rivière] dried up
[personne] (à court d'argent) broke
adv
(avec intensité) [taper, frapper] hard
boire sec to knock it back, to drink heavily
Il buvait sec, le vieux. The old boy could really knock it back.
(=brusquement) [démarrer] sharply
Let's think about "sec"
adj
[vêtement, cheveux, route] dry
Mon jean n'est pas encore sec. My jeans aren't dry yet.
à pied sec without getting one's feet wet
un shampoing pour cheveux secs a shampoo for dry hair
[raisins, figues] dried
des figues sèches dried figs
(sans eau ni glaçons)
[whisky] neat, straight
Un malt se boit sec. A pure malt should be drunk neat., A pure malt should be drunk straight.
[démarrage, secousse] sharp, sudden
un coup sec a sharp blow
d'un coup sec sharply
[personne] spare, lean
→ les doigts secs et longs de l'artiste
[réponse, ton] sharp, curt
avoir le cœur sec to be cold-hearted
nm
"tenir au sec" "keep in a dry place"
à sec [rivière] dried up
[personne] (à court d'argent) broke
adv
(avec intensité) [taper, frapper] hard
boire sec to knock it back, to drink heavily
Il buvait sec, le vieux. The old boy could really knock it back.
(=brusquement) [démarrer] sharply
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Re: Series of neighboring words - false synonyms (ex.Increasing Force/Level)
Hi everyone,
Notes:
- I guess there're too many rows and we should simplify
- similarly, there're several notions of quantity -frequency, location, persons, etc.- I'm going to redesign separating certain quantities (frequency & location)
- there would also be "not much", "not that much", etc. which are not the same as "a little"
Could we still improve the table?
Is it useful?
a series of adjectives or adverbs around quantity; if no adj. nor adv. exist, we'll take a noun
English | English -frequency / location | Français | Français -temps / lieu | |
nonexistent, without, nil, nobody, nothing, none, no way, void | never / nowhere | inexistant, sans, nul, personne, dégun[!], rien, aucun, vide, absent, que dalle[!] | jamais / nulle part | |
too few/little | trop peu | |||
very few/little, a little bit, a pinch | très peu, un petit peu, une pincée, un soupçon | |||
rare, few/little, a few/little, a bit | rarely | rare, peu, un peu | rarement | |
some | sometimes, from time to time / anywhere | quelques, moyennement | quelquefois, parfois, des fois, de temps en temps / étendu, n'importe où | |
several | frequent | plusieurs, pas mal | fréquent | |
much, many | often | beaucoup | souvent | |
very | très | |||
oodles, tons of, lots, a lot, heaps, far..., way..., loads[!] of, a whole slew of (US) | un tas/des tas, des tonnes, une tapée[!], vachement[!], une chiée[!!] | |||
a great deal | always / everywhere | énormément | toujours / partout | |
crowded | peuplé | |||
overcrowded | surpeuplé | |||
too much/many, excessive, extreme | trop, excessif, extrême |
- I guess there're too many rows and we should simplify
- similarly, there're several notions of quantity -frequency, location, persons, etc.- I'm going to redesign separating certain quantities (frequency & location)
- there would also be "not much", "not that much", etc. which are not the same as "a little"
Could we still improve the table?
Is it useful?
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Please feel free to point out big mistakes in my messages in a foreign language. Thanks to your remarks, I'll be able to improve my level.
PS: Pls note that I chose American English for my vocabulary, grammar, spelling, culture, etc.
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