partie / part, game

partir to départ, leave, go orT.

partout everywhere.

pas m. step, footstep ; à — de loup, on tiptoe ; stealthily.

pas not ; ne . . . — (ne — before infin.), not ; non — , not.

passer to pass, go, spend ; — femme, to become a woman ; faire — , to send ; passe pour lui, that is well enough for him {or as far as he is concerned); se — , to happen, take place.

passion f. passion, love ; avec — , impassioned, passionately.

passionné impassioned, seething, stirred to the depths.

patatras exclam, smash, crash.

patois m. patois, local dialect.

pauvre poor.

pavillon m. pavilion, wing (of a

house).

pays m. country.

paysage m. landscape, description

of natural scenery.

péché m. sin, offense, pédant pedantic ; subit, pédant, pédantesque pedantic. pédantisme m. pedantry.

peindre to paint, depict.

peine /. pain, grief, trouble, dif-

ficulty ; la question en vaut la — ,

the problem is worth solving ; ce

n'est plus la — , it is no longer

worth while.

pèlerine f. cape, pèlerine, penaud abashed, sheepish.

pencher to lean ; se — , to lean.

pendant for, during ; — que, while.

pénétrer to penetrate.

pénible painful.

pensée / thought, reflection ; il

me revient à la — , there occurs to

me.

penser to think ; — à, to think about ;

— de, to think of, fonn an esti-

mate of ; y pensez-vous ? what are

you thinking of ? what do you

mean by that ? how can you (think

of doing such a thing) ?

pensionnaire / schoolgirl (of a

convent or other boarding-school).

pensionnat m. boarding-school.

pensum m. lesson, study, supple-

mentary task (imposed as a pun-

ishmtnf).

perceptible visible, perceptible, perdre to lose, miss, waste, ruin ; —

l'habitude, to get out of the habit;

que de temps perdu ! what a waste