Wednesday, May 6, 2009

vecu (from vivre)

vivre /vivʀ/ (conjugate⇒)
  1. transitive verb
    1. to live through [era];
      to go through [difficult times];
      to experience [love];
    1. to cope with [divorce, failure, change].
  1. intransitive verb
    1. to live;
      ~ vieux to live to a great age;
      vive la révolution! long live the revolution!;
      ~ à la campagne to live in the country;
      être facile à ~ to be easy to live with;
      to be easy to get on with;
      ~ avec son temps to move with the times;
      se laisser ~ to take things easy;
      apprendre à ~ à qn (familiar) to teach sb some manners (familiar) ;
      ~ aux dépens de qn to live off sb;
    1. [fashion] to last;
      avoir vécu [person] to have seen a great deal of life;
      humorous [object] to have had its day;
    1. [town] to be full of life.
IDIOMS:
qui vivra verra what will be will be.

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