Sentence examples of "matching word" in English
Tom had just one word to cut so that out of this sentence, forever, disappeared our Mary.
Tom n'avait plus qu'un mot à couper pour que de cette phrase, à jamais, disparaisse notre Mary.
Mary was wondering whether she counted for Tom as a mere word or as a real person.
Mary se demandait si elle comptait pour Tom comme un simple mot ou comme une vraie personne.
His misspelling of that word eliminated him from the contest.
Une faute d'orthographe sur ce mot l'a éliminé du concours.
'Philosophy' is a Greek word that means the love of wisdom.
'Philosophie' est un mot grec qui signifie l'amour de la sagesse.
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
Si tu ne connais pas la signification d'un mot, vérifie dans un dictionnaire.
As their conversation was in French, I could not understand a word.
Comme leur conversation était en français, je ne pouvais pas en comprendre un mot.
Nothing can take a US American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In the United States, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.
Rien ne saurait étonner un Américain. On a souvent répété que le mot "impossible" n’était pas français; on s’est évidemment trompé de dictionnaire. En Amérique, tout est facile, tout est simple, et quant aux difficultés mécaniques, elles sont mortes avant d’être nées.
The city of Bonn just invented the "hookermeter", to tax prostitutes who cruise its sidewalks, and I just invented the word for that.
La ville de Bonn vient d'inventer le « putomètre », pour taxer les prostituées qui parcourent ses trottoirs, et moi je viens d'inventer le mot pour ça.
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