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Oxford Hachette French-English Dictionary

Other Bilingual Dictionaries

In addition to the books listed below, on each floor of both Raynor and Memorial, you'll find dictionary stands with a French-English dictionary.  Well, that's assuming it's not already in use, nor has gone 'walk-about'! 

French language dictionaries - in French

These are the equivalents of our Webster's or Random House dictionaries.

Visual dictionaries

Visual dictionaries are sometimes incredibly useful ... e.g. when you're not quite sure what to call something even in your own native tongue!

Online dictionary sites

Language usage

When you need to know how the French would handle a tricky grammatical situation, try one of these.

Verb conjugation

For those hard-to-conjugate verbs, here are several resources that should help ...