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Le futur de l’engagement - Vocab French to English

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Le futur de l’engagement - Vocab French to English

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Key topic words

  • l'actualité - the news
  • le peuple - people
  • l'altermondialisation - anti-globalisation
  • le consumérisme - consumerism
  • la mondialisation - globalisation
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Nouns

  • le contre-pouvoir - challenge to political authority
  • défi - challenge
  • un enjeu - issue
  • le status quo - present situation
  • le sentiment d'appartenance - feeling of belonging
  • le rêve - dream
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Nouns (continued)

  • le milieu - background
  • la tendance - trend
  • le désaccord - disagreement
  • les idées reçues - received opinions
  • un élu - elected representative
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Verbs

  • influencer - to influence
  • donner la parole à - to give a voice to
  • se rapprocher de - to get close to
  • remédier à - to remedy something
  • nuancer - to tone down
  • rassembler - to gather
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Verbs (continued)

  • intervenir - to intervene
  • se prononcer pour/contre - to declare oneself for/against
  • susciter - to stir up
  • vaincre - to defeat
  • défendre - to defend
  • gaspiller - to waste
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Verbs (continued)

  • démontrer - to prove
  • s'efforcer de - to try to
  • exiger - to demand
  • fournir - to supply
  • résoudre - to solve
  • ne pas avoir de scrupules à - to be unscrupulous about
  • s'exprimer - to express oneself
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Adjectives

  • décourageant - discouraging
  • encourageant - encouraging
  • dégoûté - disgusted
  • politisé - politicised

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10Politics & Immigration

11Conjugation & Use of Tenses

11.1Present Tense

11.2Perfect Tense

11.3Imperfect Tense

11.4Future Tense

11.5Conditional Tense

11.6Future Perfect Tense

11.7Conditional Perfect Tense

11.8Pluperfect Tense

12Extra Grammar

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