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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche

  3. French articles and determiners - Wikipedia

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    The French indefinite article is analogous to the English indefinite article a/an. Like a/an, the French indefinite article is used with a noun referring to a non-specific item, or to a specific item when the speaker and audience do not both know what the item is; so, « J'ai cassé une chaise rouge » ("I broke a red chair").

  4. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    Note that the word in French has retained the general meaning: e.g. château in French means "castle" and chef means "chief". In fact, loanwords from French generally have a more restricted or specialised meaning than in the original language, e.g. legume (in Fr. légume means "vegetable"), gateau (in Fr. gâteau means "cake").

  5. Image translation - Wikipedia

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    Image translation is the machine translation of images of printed text (posters, banners, menus, screenshots etc.). This is done by applying optical character recognition (OCR) technology to an image to extract any text contained in the image, and then have this text translated into a language of their choice, and the applying digital image processing on the original image to get the ...

  6. Wikipedia:Translation

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    once you have created the article, tag it with a translation template, as mentioned above. or. add a page request red link in the Requested articles Project section with the proposed title of the article which will contain the translation adding an interwiki link to the other language's Wikipedia page(s). Note that fewer people will likely see ...

  7. Wikipedia:Translation/*/Lang/fr - Wikipedia

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    Comment: I started a translation but the French article includes uncited statements and these would only run into trouble (Alastair Swift) have taken on the translation into English. I'll keep you posted. Requested by: Ozculer 15:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC) Interest of the translation: not very long and satisfying in english version

  8. Dossier - Wikipedia

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    A dossier is a collection of papers or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject. Dossier can also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media

  9. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Can also mean to be sexually attractive, successful, or to have a loud argument with someone (J'me suis pogné avec mon voisin, "I bickered with my neighbour"). It may also mean "obtain", as in Je me suis pogné une nouvelle radio ("I grabbed myself a new radio"). quétaine: kitsch, tacky (not in a good way) taper, tomber sur les nerfs