The tank, the test, the noise that was not there yesterday.
Practise this list
From these 33 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
More about this list
The list for the day the car stops being furniture. One word on it shows how differently the two languages build a name for a new machine. L’horodateur is the parking meter — the pillar you pay at and take a ticket from — and it is built out of what it does: horo- from the hour and dater from the date, a device that stamps a time. The same stem gives l’horodatage, the time-stamp on a file or a transaction, which is now a word in computing. English named the same pillar after the transaction instead — « pay and display » — or after the coin slot it used to be, « parking meter ». French builds these compounds readily and they stay transparent: un lave-vaissellewashes the dishesun essuie-glacewipes the glass Read the parts and you have the object, which is worth more here than any single translation.
The words
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Verb (2)
remorquerto towVerbB1
Ils ont remorqué la voiture jusqu’au garage.They towed the car to the garage.
se garerto parkVerbB1
On ne peut pas se garer de ce côté de la rue.You cannot park on this side of the street.
Phrase (1)
faire le pleinto fill up the tankPhraseB1
Je fais le plein avant de quitter la ville.I fill up the tank before leaving town.
