Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Mot du Jour: Si (If)

Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:
si1 /si/
  1. adverb
    1. yes;
      ‘tu ne le veux pas?’—‘~!’ ‘don't you want it?’—‘yes I do!’;
      il n'ira pas, moi ~ he won't go, but I will;
    1. so;
      c'est un homme ~ agréable he's such a pleasant man;
      ~ bien que so;
      so much so that;
      rien n'est ~ beau qu'un coucher de soleil there's nothing so beautiful as a sunset;
      est-elle ~ bête qu'on le dit? is she as stupid as people say (she is)?
  1. conjunction (s' before il or ils)
    1. if;
      ~ j'étais riche if I were rich;
      ~ j'avais su! if only I'd known!;
      vous pensez ~ j'étais content! you can imagine how happy I was!;
      ~ ce n'est (pas) toi, qui est-ce? if it wasn't you, who was it?;
      il n'a rien pris avec lui ~ ce n'est un livre he didn't take anything with him apart from a book;
      à quoi servent ces réunions ~ ce n'est à nous faire perdre notre temps? what purpose do these meetings serve other than to waste our time?;
      ~ tant est qu'une telle distinction ait un sens if such a distinction makes any sense;
    1. ~ tu venais avec moi? how about coming with me?
    1. whereas.

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