la parole, word ; promise ; adresser la parole a qqn., to address s.o.
le parrain, god-father.
la part, part ; share ; quelque part, somewhere ; de toutes parts, on all sides ; prendre part (a), to join (in) ; de la part (de), in the name (of) ; de sa part, on his part ; faire part de qqcn. a qqn., to acquaint s.o. with s.th.
partager 1 , se partager, to share, to divide.
le parti, side ; use ; match ; prendre un parti, to come to a decision ; tirer parti (de), to derive ad- vantage (from) ; to make use (of).
particulier, private ; en particulier, privately.
la partie, part ; une partie de
plaisir, a carouse. partir (partant, parti, pars), to set out ; to depart ; parti, gone. partout, everywhere.
la parure, dress, finery;
jewellery.
parvenir (parvenant, par- venu, parviens, parvins, parviendrai) (a) , to reach ; to manage (to), to suc- ceed (in), parvint, see parvenir.
le pas, step ; pace ; stride ; de ce pas, straightway, immediately ; a grands pas, with great strides ; revenir sur ses pas, to retrace one’s steps.
le passage, passage : de passage, passing ; sur son passage, as he passed.
le passe, past.
passer, to pass ; to cross ;
��to spend ; passer chez
qqn., to call on s.o. ; se
passer, to take place ; se
passer de, to do without,
to dispense with.
le pasteur, shepherd ; minister.
le pastoureau, shepherd,
swain.
la patrie, native land, le patron, patron saint.
pauvre, pojr. le pauvre, the beggar, la pauvrete, poverty, la pauvrette, poor woman, poor
girl.
le pave, pavement. paver, to pave, payer, to pay (for). le pays [pei], country, region, le paysan, peasant, rustic, la paysanne, peasant woman, la peau, skin, le peche, sin. le pecheur, fisherman, le pecule, substance, capital, la peine, trouble, difficulty ; a peine, hardly, scarcely ; se tirer de peine, to make a living.
pele-mele, pell-mell, pencher, to bend. pendant, during ; pendant
que, whilst, while, pendre, to hang. le pendu, hanged man. penetre, moved, sincere, penetrer, to penetrate, la pensee, thought.
penser (a), to think (of) ; vous pensez bien que, you may well suppose that.
la pente, slope, la Pentecote, Whitsuntide. percer, to pierce, bore, cut
through.
la perche, pole, boat-hook, perdre, to lose ; perdre de vue, to lose sight of.
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