Multiple Entries: tourne tourner tourné Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:tourner /tuʀne/ (conjugate⇒) - transitive verb
- to turn;
~ la tête vers to turn to look at;
~ les yeux vers to look at; - to shoot [film];
- to get around [difficulty, law];
- to phrase [letter, criticism];
- ~ qn/qch en dérision to deride sb/sth;
- ~ et retourner qch dans son esprit to mull sth over;
- to stir [sauce];
to toss [salad].
- intransitive verb
- gen to turn;
[planet] to rotate;
[rotating door] to revolve;
[dancer] to spin;
faire ~ to turn;
to spin;
faire ~ les tables (in spiritualism) to do table-turning; - ~ autour de gen to turn around;
[planet] to revolve around;
[plane] to circle; - ~ (en rond) [person] to go round and round;
[driver] to drive round and round;
~ en rond figurative [discussion] to go round in circles; - ~ autour de [sum of money] to be (somewhere) in the region of;
- [engine, factory] to run;
~ rond [engine] to run smoothly;
[business] to be doing well;
faire ~ to run [business, company];
mon frère ne tourne pas rond depuis quelque temps (familiar) my brother has been acting strangely for some time; - les choses ont bien/mal tourné pour lui things turned out well/badly for him;
- [director] to shoot;
~ (dans un film) [actor] to make a film GB or movie US; - [milk, meat] to go off;
- ~ autour de qn to hang around sb.
- se tourner reflexive verb (+ v être)
- se ~ vers qn/qch to turn to sb/sth;
- se ~ vers qn/qch to turn toward(s) sb/sth;
- to turn around.
Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2005 Oxford University Press:tourné, ~e1 /tuʀne/ adjective - ~ vers [eyes, look, person] turned toward(s);
[activity, policy] oriented toward(s);
~ vers le passé/l'avenir backward-/forward-looking;
porte ~e vers la mer gate facing the sea; - bien ~ [compliment, letter] nicely phrased;
- [milk] off.
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| tourne | | nf | jump | | Compound Forms/Formes composées |
| qui tourne à droite | phrase | making right turns v |
| qui tourne sa veste (traître) | phrase | turncoat n |
| tourne-disque | nm | record player |
| tourne-disque | nm | record-player |
| tourne-disque | nm | record deck | | Report an error. |
| tourner ⇒ | | v | shoot (movie, film) |
| tourner | | v | round (wind) |
| tourner | | v | round and round |
| tourner | | v | rotate (revolve) |
| tourner | | v | turn round |
| tourner | | v | turn |
| tourner | (autour d'un centre) | v | revolve (around axis) |
| tourner | (autour du bord) | v | rim |
| tourner | (changer de direction) | v | bend (change direction) |
| tourner | (changer de direction) | v | bend (change direction) |
| tourner | (rouler) | v | roll (turn over) |
| tourner | (tournoyer) | v | gyrate (dance, derviche) |
| tourner | (virer) | v | veer | | | | Pronominal Verbs/Verbes pronominaux |
| se tourner | v | turn (turn itself) | | Compound Forms/Formes composées |
| empêcheur de tourner en rond | nm | spoilsport |
| empêcheur de tourner en rond | nm | resister |
| empêcheur de tourner en rond (trouble-fête) | nm | spoilsport |
| faire tourner la tête | v | make your head spin |
| se tourner les pouces | v | jerk off (lose interest) |
| se tourner les pouces (familier) | vpr | twiddle one's thumbs colloquial |
| se tourner sur | v | look back on |
| se tourner vers | v | turn to |
| se tourner vers | v | depend (look to) |
| se tourner vers l'avenir | v | look into the future |
| se tourner vers l'intérieur | v | turn inward |
| tourner / virer à gauche | v | get left |
| tourner autour | v | getting around |
| tourner autour | v | getting round |
| tourner autour | v | beat around |
| tourner autour du pot | v | beat about |
| tourner autour du pot | v | beat around the bush |
| tourner à droite | v | make right |
| tourner à gauche (équestre) | vi | haw (equestrian) |
| tourner bien | v | run smoothly |
| tourner en dérision | v | make a mockery of |
| tourner en ridicule | v | deride |
| tourner en rond (n'aboutir à rien) | v | go round in circles (get nowhere) |
| tourner la chose en plaisanterie | v intr | laugh off |
| tourner la langue sept fois dans sa bouche | v | think carefully before speaking |
| tourner le dos | v | cold shoulder |
| tourner une nouvelle page | v | turn over a new leaf |
| tourner une page | | turn a corner |
| tourner vers l'ouest | v | turn west | | Report an error. |
| tourné | | adj | turned | | Compound Forms/Formes composées |
| à l'esprit mal tourné | adj | dirty-minded |
| à moitié tourné | | half-turned |
| tourné et retourné | v | toss and turn |
| tourné vers l'intérieur | | turning inward | | Report an error. | Forums WR : discussions dont le titre comprend le mot(s) "tourné".
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