The Queen's College, Oxford | Welcome · Web viewtout le monde everyone, everybody un nom surname 3. au moins at least mettre (mette) to put une carte d’identité identity card,

The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators: French Level 2Réfugiée en Chartreuse by Nicholas Julo and Muriel Zürcher (Mosquito, 2020)

1.

chez nous at our house, at our home, at ours

plus tard later

comprendre (tu as bien compris)

to understand (you have fully understood)

un pou louse, head louse

d’accord ok un prénom first name

désormais now une puce / ma puce flea / my darling, my sweetheart

dire (on dirait)

to tell; to say(we would say)

quelques some, a few

en attendant in the meantime; while we are waiting for

se rappeler (tu te rappelles)

to remember, to recall

il ne faut plus you must no longer; you must not… anymore

une repartie comeback, quick response

manquer de (quelque chose)

to lack (something) un retour return

même si even if un séjour stay

menacer (on te menace)

to threaten (they threaten you)

véritable (adj) real, true; genuine, authentic

une paix peace vrai (adj) true, real; honest

personne no one, nobody

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2.

comprendre (j’ai compris)

to understand (I have understood)

notre our

devoir (doit) must; to have to pour que so that; in order that; for

dire (dis-moi)

to tell; to say(tell me)

rien nothing

envoyer (t’ont envoyé)

to send (have sent you)

suffire (suffit) to suffice; to be enough

une fille daughter; girl une tata aunt

un mari husband un tonton uncle

un mensonge lie; lying tout le monde everyone, everybody

un nom surname


3.

au moins at least mettre (mette) to put

une carte d’identité identity card, ID card on est sûrs we are sure; we are certain; we are positive

un curé parish priest parler to talk, to speak

dessus on quelque part somewhere, someplace

enterrer (enterrez) to bury tenter (tenté) to try (tried)

faux (m), fausse (f) (adj)

false; fake, counterfeit une valise suitcase


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4.

s’arrêter to stop; to break off garder to keep, to save

une balade stroll, ramble, walk un genou(x) knee(s)

briller (brillent) to shine, to sparkle, to gleam

juste just, only

un caillou(x) pebble(s), stone(s) une pierre stone, rock

ce, cette, ces this ramasser to pick up, to gather; to collect

comme like regarde-moi ça ! look at that!

couper les jambes to tire out toute all

devoir (tu devrais pas)

must; to have to (you should not)

vouloir (veux) to want

faire (tu ferais mieux de ne pas…)

to do (you’d better not…)

une vie life

finir (tu finiras) to finish (you’ll finish; you’ll end up)

une vue view, vista; sight

5.


adorer (adore) to adore, to love, to really like

des heures for hours

crevé (adj) worn out, beat, exhausted

leur / leurs their

croire (on croirait) to think; to believe (you would think)

là there

encore still un paradis heaven, paradise

escalader to climb, to scale pouvoir (je pourrais) to be able to (I could)

gâcher (gâchent) to waste, to squander; to ruin, to spoil, to wreck

plus loin further

grimper to climb, to scale un sommet summit

une guerre war tout everything







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