Francúzština | Angličtina |
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il ne faut jamais baisser les bras interjection | never say die(do not despair) |
il ne faut jamais dire jamais phrase | never say never◼◼◼phrase |
il ne faut pas abuser des bonnes choses phrase | enough is as good as a feast(there is no value in excess) |
il ne faut pas confondre vitesse et précipitation phrase | more haste, less speed(when one is in a hurry, one often ends up completing a task more slowly) |
il ne faut pas mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier phrase | don't put all your eggs in one basket(do not dedicate all your resources to one project) |
il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort (don't wake up the sleeping cat) verbe | let sleeping dogs lie◼◼◼(leave things as they are) |
il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué (don't sell the bearskin before you have killed it) phrase | don't count your chickens before they're hatched◼◼◼(one should not depend upon a favorable outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur) |
il neige phrase | it's snowing◼◼◼phrase |
il n’est pas de roses sans épines phrase | no rose without a thornphrase |
il n’est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir phrase | |
il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu phrase | where there's smoke, there's fire(if there is a hint of something occurring it could indeed be true, but rumors should be handled with skepticism) |
il n’y a point de laides amours phrase | beauty is in the eye of the beholder(people have different ideas of what is beautiful) |
il paraît verbe | say [said, saying, says]◼◼◼(to have a common expression) |
il parait (que...) phrase | rumour has it◼◼◼(there is a rumor that...) the story goesphrase |
il pleut phrase | it's raining◼◼◼phrase |
il revient au galop phrase | old habits die hard(established habits are difficult to change) |
il revient au galop (drive off character phrase | a leopard cannot change its spots(one cannot change one's own nature) |
il se peut que [+ subjunctive] adverbe | maybe◼◼◼(indicating a lack of certainty) |
il se trouve adverbe | as it happens◼◼◼(by coincidence) |
il va de soi [expression in the 3rd person sg verbe | go without saying◼◼◼(to be obvious, apparent or clear) |
il va sans dire verbe | go without saying◼◼◼(to be obvious, apparent or clear) |
il y a pronoun | there◼◼◼(expletive subject of verb of existence: "there is") |
il y a [singular and plural] phrase | there are◼◼◼(third-person plural present indicative of there be) |
il y a [singular and plural] verbe | there is◼◼◼(third-person singular simple present indicative form of there be) |
il y a [used before the time] adverbe | ago◼◼◼(past; gone by; since) |
il y a à boire et à manger nom | mixed bag◼◼◼(idiom about a mixture of advantages and disadvantages) |
il y a de l'espoir (as long as there's life phrase | hope springs eternal(the feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself) |
il y a du bon et du moins bon nom | mixed bag(idiom about a mixture of advantages and disadvantages) |
il y a eu un accident phrase | there's been an accident◼◼◼phrase |
il y a loin de la coupe aux lèvres phrase | there's many a slip twixt cup and lip(in any situation something can always go wrong) |
il y a longtemps adverbe | long ago◼◼◼(at a time in the distant past) |
il y a pire dans la vie phrase | worse things happen at sea◼◼◼phrase |
il y a plusieurs façons de plumer un canard (there are many methods to pluck a duck) phrase | there's more than one way to skin a cat◼◼◼(a problem generally has more than one solution; there is more than one way to achieve a goal) |
il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark phrase | something is rotten in the state of Denmark(Hamlet quotation, used in other contexts to mean "something is not right") |
il y avait une fois adverbe | once upon a time◼◼◼(traditional beginning of children’s stories, especially fairy tales) |
île nom {m} | city block(part of town enclosed by streets) |
Île aux Ours nom {f} | Bear Island◼◼◼(island of the Svalbard archipelago) |
île Christmas nom {f} | Christmas Island◼◼◼(non self-governing territory of Australia) |
île corallienne nom {f} | coral island◼◼◼noun |