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Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Test Yourself

These resources have been devised by:

• Joanna Brough
• Elspeth Anderson
• Sydney Thorne

Use your dictionary to help find the answers.

• Working through an example 1
  

• Abbreviations
  

• English Idioms
  

  English and French idioms are not always translatable word for word.

  This exercise helps you familarise yourself with looking up English idioms in the English-French side of the dictionary to find the correct French equivalent. For instance, the translation for to grin like a Cheshire cat is listed at cat rather than Cheshire. Being aware of where idioms are most likely to be found will save you time when translating.

• French Idioms
  

• Grammatical categories
  

  The dictionary indicates the various grammatical categories with certain abbreviations. Knowing them off by heart saves you a lot of time.

• Irregular Plurals
  

• Phonetics 1
  

• Sentence patterns 1
  

• Subjunctive
  

• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs