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5 Identify the appropriate translation.
boucler
minine or the 6 If necessary, look up area and select the appropriate translation.
quartier m
une boîte de 7 Now construct the translation of the sentence, putting the verb in the correct tense
and person.
Result: The translation "la police a bouclé le quartier".
Goal 5: Translate "chat échaudé craint l'eau froide".
Process:
1 Look up all the words you do not know and find a literal translation. If this does not
make sense in your context, ask yourself whether the phrase could be an idiom,
saying, or proverb. The answer is yes, because you can see immediately that cats
and cold water have no relation to the wider context.
2 Select the word or words that you are least familiar with.
échaudé
3 Will this word appear in this form in the dictionary?
noting that
No, échaudé is part of a verb. Look up the infinitive form.
échauder
4 Look for the phrase in the IDIOMS category.
—IDIOME chat échaudé craint l'eau froide
5 Note the information <Prov> which tells you that the expression is a proverb in
French as its translation is in English.
<Prov>
ou will find the
Result: The translation "once bitten, twice shy"
by a square
ction quicker,
search terms.
Goal 6: Understand the meaning of the acronym CDD in the phrase "il a un CDD".
Process:
1 Look up CDD and follow the indication provided by the arrowed cross-reference.
2 Look up contrat and select the matching headword. (You can use the Super Jump
function.)
n this case
3 Scan the entry for CDD .
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