 | French | English  |  |
 | nouveau genre {adj} | modern [up-to-date; often pej.: newfangled] |  |
 | à la dernière mode {adj} | modern [up-to-date; often pej.: newfangled] |  |
 | couramment {adv} | regularly [often] |  |
 | souvent {adv} | regularly [often] |  |
Verbs |
 | émarger qc. [signer] | to sign sth. [often only with initials] |  |
Nouns |
 | vestige {m} | 2 leftover [often pl.] |  |
 | cuis. choucroute {f} garnie | [Alsacian speciality - sauerkraut with sausages and other salted meats, charcuterie, and often potatoes] |  |
 | cuis. aligot {m} | aligot [dish made from cheese blended into mashed potatoes (often with some garlic) that is made in L'Aubrac region in the southern Massif Central of France] |  |
 | bic® {m} | biro [Br.] [often used as a generic term for any ballpoint pen] [Biro™] |  |
 | violente critique {f} | brickbat [highly critical (and often insulting) remark or comment] |  |
 | cuis. croquembouche {m} | croquembouche [aussi : croque-en-bouche] [French dessert consisting of choux pastry puffs piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel, often served at weddings] |  |
 | élite {f} | elite [often treated as pl.] |  |
 | fin. émolument {m} [vieilli ou littéraire] [souvent au pluriel] | emolument [formal] [often pl.] |  |
 | passade {f} [caprice amoureux] | fling [coll.] [short, often sexual relationship] |  |
 | racontar {m} | gossip [story, anecdote: often untrue] |  |
 | dr. menotte {f} [souvent pl.] | handcuff [often {pl}] |  |
 | relig. royaume {m} des cieux | heaven [often instead of: kingdom of heaven] |  |
 | sociol. sous-prolétariat {m} | lumpen [coll.] [often treated as pl.] [also: Lumpen] [lumpenproletariat] |  |
 | vulgaire {m} [péj.] [vieilli] | mob [often pej.] |  |
 | couille {f} molle [péj.] [fam.] | pansy [coll.] [pej.] [weak and often cowardly man] |  |
 | préliminaires {m.pl} | preliminary [often plural] |  |
 | naut. rade {f} | roads [often pl.] |  |
 | inform. paramètre {m} [souvent pluriel] | setting [often {pl}] |  |
 | cuis. ris {m} | sweetbread [often plural] |  |
 | œuvre {f} | writing [often pl.] |  |
2 Words: Verbs |
 | se faire valoir [loc.] [souvent pej.] | to show off [idiom] [often pej.] |  |
2 Words: Nouns |
 | dent. bagues {f.pl} (orthodontiques) | (orthodontic) brace {sg} [often plural] |  |
 | agr. écon. économie {f} agricole | agricultural economics {pl} [often treated as sg.] |  |
 | hist. mil. cantinier {m} | camp follower [often as cook for the soldiers] |  |
 | hist. mil. cantinière {f} | camp follower [often as cook for the soldiers] [female] |  |
 | écon. fin. économie {f} financière | financial economics [often treated as sg.] |  |
 | relig. célestes cohortes {f.pl} [littéraire] | heavenly host {sg} [often treated as pl.] |  |
 | pol. politique {f} identitaire | identity politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] |  |
 | hist. naut. Mary Celeste {f} [souvent appelée à tort Marie Celeste] [ brick-goélette américain découvert abandonné au large des Açores le 4 décembre 1872] | Mary Celeste [often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste] |  |
 | mus. orphéon {m} | musical society [often choral] |  |
 | pol. realpolitik {f} | practical politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] [realpolitik, Realpolitik] |  |
 | pol. politique {f} pragmatique | practical politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] [realpolitik, Realpolitik] |  |
 | pol. realpolitik {f} | real politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] |  |
 | pol. politique {f} pragmatique | real politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] |  |
 | pol. realpolitik {f} | realistic politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] |  |
 | pol. politique {f} pragmatique | realistic politics [treated as sg. or (less often) pl.] |  |
3 Words: Others |
 | Bonjour Messieurs-Dames ! | Good morning everybody! [often used when entering a village shop] |  |
3 Words: Verbs |
 | dr. s'être compromis dans qc. | to be implicated in sth. [often referring unlawful acts] |  |
 | avoir les doigts boudinés [fam.] [souvent péj.] | to have podgy fingers [Br.] [coll.] [often péj.] |  |
 | accoutrer qn. (de qc.) [souvent péj.] [habiller] | to rig sb. out (in sth.) [often pej.] [dress] |  |
3 Words: Nouns |
 | hist. bas Moyen Âge {m} | late Middle Ages {pl} [often treated as sg.] <LMA> |  |
 | hist. Moyen Âge {m} tardif | late Middle Ages {pl} [often treated as sg.] <LMA> |  |
 | la fronde et les flèches {noun} [fig.] | slings and arrows [fig.] [pointed often acerbic critical attacks] |  |
 | inform. internet accès {m} Wi-Fi™ [aussi : accès wifi™] | Wi-Fi™ connection [also WiFi, Wifi] [coll.] [often used as synonym for WLAN] |  |
5+ Words: Others |
 | Plus ça change, plus ça reste la même chose. [1849] [Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr] | The more it changes, the more it's the same thing. [often quoted in French] |  |