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French Vocabulary Bites

un toboggan

un TOBOGGAN in French is a SLIDE in English

a TOBOGGAN in English une LUGE in French

Related: Playground Vocabulary .

French Vocabulary Bites

College or ‘le collège’

J’ai 14 ans et je suis au collège.

I’m 14 and I’m in Junior High.

LE COLLÈGE is Junior High, not College.

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French Vocabulary Bites

tombé du ciel is out of the blue

Cette promotion est tombée du ciel.

This promotion came out of the blue.

tombé or tombée du ciel means out of the blue.

Other uses of ‘ciel’:

à ciel ouvert

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French Vocabulary Bites

assiette, plat et plateau

une assiette is a plate

J’ai cassé une assiette – I broke a plate.

un plat is a dish

Ce plat de tomates est délicieux. This tomato dish is delicious. Ce plat en porcelaine est beau. This china dish

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French Vocabulary Bites

viticulture et viniculture

viTiculture refers to vineyards and viNiculture refers to wine.

Related: Wine video – Wine vocabulary . Bottle sizes .

French Vocabulary Bites

une fillette

UNE FILLETTE is both a young girl and a 375 ml wine or Champagne bottle.

Related: Fancy bottle sizes .

French Vocabulary Bites

un bâtard

un bâtard

un bâtard is both an illegitimate child and a not-quite-one-pound loaf of bread.

Related: Why is there an accent on the word

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French Vocabulary Bites

un amateur

trois balles de tennis

un amateur de tennis is a tennis lover, a tennis aficionado. un joueur de tennis amateur is a recreational tennis player, not a professional one.

Related: A French tennis lesson . Roland Garros

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French Vocabulary Bites

une robe

un galopin

UNE ROBE is

a dress the coat of an animal the shade and color of a wine

French Vocabulary Bites

tombé du ciel, out of the blue

ciel breton

tombé/e du ciel – fallen from the sky – is ‘out of the blue’ in French.

Related: idioms