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Vocabulary is dripping from the ceiling in this episode where I give you many words derived from each of the French numbers, from one to ten!
Vocabulary and Spelling of the French Words mentioned in this episode
Unique, une licorne (= a unicorn)
un duo, un duel
Bis ! = encore (musique concert) ; A (street number)
Une bicyclette, un biscuit, un bipède, la bigamie, bipolaire
Un tricycle, un triangle, un trio, des triplés, une triplette (team of 3 pétanque players), un trimestre
Un quatuor, quarante, la quarantaine
Un pentagone, un pentathlon
Sexagésimal(e) : division of time into 60 minutes of 60 seconds each
Un hexagone, l’Hexagone (the nickname of « France »)
Septembre, un heptagone
Octobre, une octave ((music: eight-note scale)
Novembre
Un décimètre, un double-décimètre (a 20cm ruler), un décilitre, une décade (= 10 days !), une décennie (= 10 years !), décupler (= to multiply by 10 ; to strongly increase)
La potion magique décuple les forces d’Astérix = The magic potion demultiplies Asterix’s strength.
Trentenaire, quadragénaire, quinquagénaire, sexagénaire, septuagénaire, octogénaire, nonagénaire
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