Emergencies and safety

The list nobody wants to need. In the middle of it is l’audition, and the English word spelt the same way belongs to a theatre. L’audition d’un témoin is the police or court *interview* — the session in which somebody is heard — and être entendu is to be interviewed in that sense. English « audition » is the tryout an actor or a musician goes to, and it never means questioning; the English for l’audition is « interview », « questioning » or, in court, « hearing ». The tryout, in French, is une audition too when a singer is heard — so the word does cover both, but the police sense is the frequent one and the one on this page. And there is a third: l’audition is also hearing as a faculty, une perte d’audition. One noun, three rooms.