Mot du jour: endormi (sleepy)

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Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:
endormi, ~e /ɑ̃dɔʀmi/ adjective
[person, animal] sleeping, asleep;
[village, mind] sleepy.

endormir /ɑ̃dɔʀmiʀ/
transitive verb
to send [sb] to sleep [child];[person, substance] to put [sb] to sleep [patient];
(from boredom) [person, lecture] to send [sb] to sleep [person];
to dupe [person, opinion, enemy];
to allay [suspicion];to numb [faculties].

s'endormir reflexive verb (+ v être)
to fall asleep;
to get to sleep;
figurative to sit back.

Mot du jour: pluie (rain)

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pluie /plɥi/ feminine noun

1. rain;
   sous une ~ battante in driving rain;

2. (of missiles, insults) hail;
   (of sparks, compliments) shower.

COMPOUNDS:

~s acides acid rain.

IDIOMS:

il n'est pas né de la dernière ~ (familiar) he wasn't born yesterday (colloquial);
faire la ~ et le beau temps to call the shots (colloquial).

Mot du jour: chaleur (heat)

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chaleur /ʃalœʀ/

1. feminine noun
   1. heat;
      warmth;
      coup de ~ heat stroke;
      ~ animale body heat;
   2. (of person, welcome, colour) warmth;
   3. Zool (être) en ~ (to be) on heat.

2. chaleurs noun, feminine plural les grandes ~s the hot season.

Mot du jour: eau (water)

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eau, pl ~x /o/

1. feminine noun
   1. water;
      l'~ de source spring water;
      prendre l'~ [shoe] to let in water;
      être en ~ to be dripping with sweat;
      mettre à l'~ to launch [ship];
      se jeter à l'~ to throw oneself into the water;
      figurative to take the plunge;
      tomber à l'~ figurative to fall through;
      nettoyer le sol à grande ~ to sluice the floor down;
   2. rain.

2. eaux noun, feminine plural
   1. water;
      waters;
   2. Med waters.

COMPOUNDS:

~ bénite holy water;
~ de chaux limewater;
~ douce fresh water;
~ de Javel ≈ (chloride) bleach;
~ de mer seawater;
~ oxygénée hydrogen peroxide;
~ plate plain water;
still mineral water;
~ de rose: à l'~ de rose [novel] sentimental;
~x et forêts forestry commission;
~x usées waste water.

IDIOMS:

mettre l'~ à la bouche de qn to make sb's mouth water;
ou dans ces ~x-là (familiar) or thereabouts;
vivre d'amour et d'~ fraîche to live on love alone.

Mot du Jour: Fête du travail: Labor Day

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fête du travail /fɛt dy tʀavaj/: feminine noun: Labor Day