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devenir mature verbe | mature [matured, maturing, matures]◼◼◼(to gain experience or wisdom with age) |
devenir plus profond verbe | deepen [deepened, deepening, deepens]◼◼◼(to become deeper) |
devenir virtreux verbe | glaze [glazed, glazing, glazes](characteristic change of eyes) |
devenir; aller bien verbe | become(to begin to be) |
en devenir preposition | in the making◼◼◼(in the process of being made) |
en devenir | -to-be◼◼◻(future, later, expectant) |
en souvenir de adverbe | in memoriam◼◼◼(in memory of) |
en venir au fait verbe | get to the point◼◼◼(State directly) |
faire devenir verbe | get [got, gotten, getting, gets]◼◼◼(to cause to become) |
faire revenir verbe | bring back◼◼◼(to reenact an old rule or law) brown [browned, browning, browns]◼◼◻(to cook until brown) |
faire venir verbe | send for◼◼◼(summon) |
intervenir verbe | intervene [intervened, intervening, intervenes]◼◼◼(law: in a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter) intervene [intervened, intervening, intervenes]◼◼◼(to come between, or to be between, persons or things) step in◼◼◻(To get involved) interject [interjected, interjecting, interjects]◼◻◻(to interpose onseself) |
jour du Souvenir nom propre {m} | Remembrance Day◼◼◼(in Canada, November 11) |
l'avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt (the future is for those who get up early) phrase | the early bird gets the worm◼◼◼(whoever arrives first has the best chance of success) |
l'avenir le dira phrase | time will tell◼◼◼(results of an action cannot be known beforehand) |
l'avenir nous le dira phrase | time will tell◼◼◼(results of an action cannot be known beforehand) |
mieux vaut prévenir que guérir phrase | prevention is better than cure◼◼◼(It is better to prevent the creation of a problem than to have to deal with it afterwards.) better safe than sorry◼◼◻(it is preferable to be cautious) a stitch in time saves nine◼◻◻(a timely effort can prevent larger problems) |
parvenir verbe | manage [managed, managing, manages]◼◼◼(to succeed at an attempt) |
parvenir à ses fins verbe | get one's way(obtain the circumstances one wishes for) |
prévenir verbe | help [helped, helping, helps]◼◼◼(transitive: avoid or prevent) warn [warned, warning, warns]◼◼◼(to notify someone of something) avert [averted, averting, averts]◼◼◻(to ward off) forestall [forestalled, forestalling, forestalls]◼◼◻(to prevent) ward off◼◻◻(to avert or prevent) |
provenir verbe | stem [stemmed, stemming, stems]◼◼◼(to descend in a family line) |
redevenir verbe | revert [reverted, reverting, reverts]◼◼◼(to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse) |
resurvenir verbe | recur [recurred, recurring, recurs](to happen again) |
revenir verbe | return [returned, returning, returns]◼◼◼(to come or go back) come back◼◼◼((intransitive) To return to a place) revert [reverted, reverting, reverts]◼◼◻verb go back◼◼◻(to abandon, desert, betray or fail someone or something) recur [recurred, recurring, recurs]◼◼◻(to happen again) |
revenir à soi verbe | come to◼◼◼(recover consciousness after fainting) come to one's senses(to become reasonable, comprehending, or responsible) |