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Words
Français | English |
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des moutons | sheep |
du lait | milk |
élever | to breed |
faire cocorico | to crow |
la mare | the pond |
la paille | straw |
l'agriculture | farming |
le bétail | cattle |
le beurre | butter |
le cheptel | livestock |
le fromage | cheese |
l'étable | the cowshed |
meugler | to moo |
traire une vache | to milk a cow |
un agneau | a lamb |
un berger | a shepherd |
un boeuf (des boeufs) | an ox (pl. oxen) |
un bouc | a billy-goat |
un canard | a drake |
un cheval | a horse |
un cochon | a pig |
un dindon | a turkey |
un fermier | a farmer |
un pigeon | a pigeon |
un poulet | a chicken |
un taureau | a bull |
un veau | calf (pl. calves) |
une chèvre | a goat |
une oie | a goose (pl. geese) |
une race | a breed |
une vache | a cow |
Expression
=Passer du cop à l'anne
- Litteraly: To move from rooster to donkey
- Meaning: Move from one subject to another
Etre fier comme un coq sur son tas de fumier
- Litteraly: Be as proud as a rooster on your dung heap
- Meaning: It shows the ridiculous side of being too proud
C'est la poule qui chante qui a fait l'œuf
- Litteraly: It was the singing hen that made the egg
- Equivalent expression: the guilty dog barks the loudest
Une tête de cochon
- Litteraly: A pig's head
- Meaning: a stubborn character
Doux comme un agneau
- Litteraly: Soft like a lamb
- Meaning: A very nice person
Avoir un comportement moutonnier / un comportement de mouton
- Litteraly / equivalent expression: To have a sheepish behavior
- Meaning: Who is easily led or fooled, who imitates, follows the behavior of others without discernment.