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Week 22, Day 3: Additional Exercises — Additional Vocabulary

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Week 22, Day 3: Additional Exercises — Additional Vocabulary

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Le son / l’ouïe
la détonation
le claquement
l’explosion (f)
le fracas
le cric-crac
le tambourinement
grinçant
le gargouillis
le glou-glou
le martèlemen
le cliquetis
le clapotement
la voix résonnante
Retentissant
le bruissement
le froissement(for clothes)
le bruit sourd
Sound
bang
bang, banging
blast
crash, din
creaking
drumming
grating, jarring
gurgle
gurgle
hammering, pounding
jingle, rattle, clicking, clinking
lapping
resounding/booming
ringing, resounding
rustling, swish
rustling, swish
thud

A QUICK RECAP OF THIS LESSON:

❑ The causative construction is used when the subject of the sentence is making someone else do the action instead of performing the action himself.
❑ A causative sentence has a subject, the verb faire conjugated to match the subject, the verb of the action being done (in infinitive form), and the receiver of the action/agent of the action (or both).
❑ There are three types of construction for the causative and all three have different syntaxes: receiver-only, agent-only, and both receiver and agent.