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French translations of this preposition, prefix, verbal & nominal particle: au-dessus de, chez soi, re-, encore, sur-, dé-, trans-

Preposition / Adverb

Some examples

  • I walked over the bridge. (prep.)


  • I walked over to his office. (adv. / situative) (situatives are words like "here" or "there"
  • I just walked over. (adv. / situative)
  • I just walked the dog over. (adv. / situative)


  • I just ran over the dog. (prep./part.) (écraser)

Preposition: over vs. above

  • Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high...

Everyone knows Dorothy's song from the movie Wizard of Oz (1939). (movie version of Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900)

A photographer I've met in Paris has named her blog "Somewhere over my rainbow", an image that I must admit has grown on me over the years.

It seems to me that in these examples over has the sense of beyond (au délà de). Like beyond, "over" encompasses a lot of space, all the space above the rainbow. "Somewhere above the rainbow" does not imply all the space above, just a point in space. Imagine a transatlantic flight from Helsinki to New York:

  • ?First, we flew above the North Sea, then above the North Atlantic
  • First, we flew over the North Sea then over the North Atlantic.

Prefix

Le préfixe est très productif:

  • overbearing -- autoritaire, dominateur
  • overboard --
  • overclock(ing) / (-ed) -- processeur qui tourne au-dessus du taux prévu par le fabricant
  • overcom(e/ing) -- dépasser, surpasser
  • overlap(ping) -- chevaucher
  • overly -- often "not overly" -- (pas) trop N (adverb of degree)
  • overlook(ing) -- miss out, surplombant
  • overrid(e/ing) -- supercede
  • overrul(e/ing) -- reverse a lower court ruling
  • oversee(ing) -- surveiller / gérer de loin / manage from afar / steer (piloter)
  • oversight (p.p. -> n.) -- 1) mistake, erreur d'inattention 2) pilotage
  • overtak(e/ing) -- dépasser, doubler
  • overwhelm (v.) -- déborder, submerger, accabler

un liste plus complet chez agregink

NP adjectives / adverbs

  • an over-the-counter (OTC) drug
  • That outfit is over the top.
  • They're over the hill. (over the hill = past middle age // old)

Particle

  • think (STH) over (STH): réfléchir en profondeur
  • go (*STH) over (STH): parcourir


  • do it over = redo it (from the beginning to the end, but correcting any mistakes. "Do it again" on the other hand suggesting repeating the same action without any changes.)
  • read it over: ambiguous: le relire ou le parcourir.


  • get over it: prepositional usage: se remettre de
  • get it over with: accomplir / subir un acte peu réjouissant
  • get it done with: même sens (plus rare)


  • make-over
  • take-over: prise de pouvoir, prise de contrôle