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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby DaveAgain » Wed May 25, 2022 8:40 pm

SCMT wrote:Do you guys have a favorite online English/French dictionary? I am currently using google translate but don't love it. I tried reverso and think google is better.

For Spanish I use spanishdict.com, and although it isn't perfect, it's better than anything I've tried so far for French. I got a little lost in the reference section of the resources page on the forum, so any help would be appreciated.
I use wordreference.com or dictionnairedesfrancophones.org.

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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Lawyer&Mom » Wed May 25, 2022 9:03 pm

SCMT wrote:Do you guys have a favorite online English/French dictionary? I am currently using google translate but don't love it. I tried reverso and think google is better.

For Spanish I use spanishdict.com, and although it isn't perfect, it's better than anything I've tried so far for French. I got a little lost in the reference section of the resources page on the forum, so any help would be appreciated.


I like linguee.fr
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby badger » Thu May 26, 2022 12:55 am

I use wordreference.com too.

I also have the dict.cc app on my (android) phone because it stores the dictionaries locally & doesn't need a signal to work.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Thu May 26, 2022 5:28 pm

wordreference.com as well for me for both French and Spanish. To dig a little deeper on rare occasion there a couple of monolingual dictionaries:

Larousse
Dictionnaire de français

Real academia española
Diccionario de la lengua española

Some recommend always using monolinguals instead of bilingual dictionaries, but I do not.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby SCMT » Fri May 27, 2022 2:36 pm

Thanks to all.

After playing around with them for a bit, I think I will give Linguee a try and keep wordreference bookmarked. I like the layout a little better.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby DaveAgain » Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:22 pm

I've just come across a new-to-me expression: avoir une pêche d'enfer > to be full of beans > have lots of energy
Ne vous en faites pas, vous aurez l'air d'avoir une pêche d'enfer.
quote from On peut se dire au revoir plusieurs fois, Chapter "grosse fatigue", p.16.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby DaveAgain » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:42 am

Régine?

I've been using a meditation video playlist. I think both I and YouTube's subtitle algorithm are mishearing a word in today's video, "régine", but I can't come up with a better substitute, can you?
... le dos droit, sans être régine ...

quote from 4m16s into the video.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby guyome » Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:52 am

Based on context, I'd say it's 'rigide' but I agree the way she says it sounds a bit weird to my ears (maybe it's due to the sound quality).
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby DaveAgain » Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:23 pm

Norman French in Virginia legal system.

The Depp vs Heard legal circus has revealed some Norman-French terms in the Virginia/USA legal system:

venire - jury pool
voir dire - questioning
- My dictionary mentions that 'voir' used to have a meaning of 'true'.
ORIGIN
Law French, from Old French voir ‘true’ + dire ‘say’.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Dragon27 » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:42 pm

DaveAgain wrote:voir dire - questioning
- My dictionary mentions that 'voir' used to have a meaning of 'true'.

From Latin vērus, which is the root of words like "verify", "veracious" and "verdict". The latter comes from Medieval Latin veredictum (through the intermediate Anglo-Norman/French verdit, Modern English spelling is influenced by Latin), ultimately containing the exact same roots as the expression in question (voir dire). Another familiar descendant of the Latin vērus is the modifier "very".

The homonymic French verb voir, of course, comes from a different Latin word vidēre.
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