verb🔗Sharesonna, retentitTo produce a sound."When the horn sounds, take cover."Quand le klaxon retentit, mettez-vous à couvert.soundmusicphoneticslanguagecommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSonner, semblerTo convey an impression by one's sound."He sounded good when we last spoke."Il semblait bien la dernière fois que nous avons parlé.soundcommunicationlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSonner, retentir, se faire entendreTo be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound."The alarm sounded at 7 AM, waking everyone in the house. "L'alarme a sonné à 7 heures du matin, réveillant tout le monde dans la maison.soundcommunicationmediaChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Shareretentit, résonnaTo resound."The empty gymnasium sounded with the echo of the bouncing basketball. "Le gymnase vide résonna de l'écho du ballon de basket qui rebondissait.soundmusicsensationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareRésulter, découler(often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law."The argument about property rights sounded in contract law, not torts. "L'argument sur les droits de propriété découlait du droit des contrats, et non des délits.lawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareFaire sonner, émettre un sonTo cause to produce a sound."He sounds the instrument."Il fait sonner l'instrument.soundactionphysicsmusicsensationcommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗SharePrononcer, articuler(of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce."The teacher explained how the "a" in "car" sounded different than the "a" in "cat." "Le professeur a expliqué comment le « a » dans « car » se prononçait différemment du « a » dans « cat ».languagephoneticslinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗SharePlongéDive downwards, used of a whale."The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive."La baleine a plongé et huit cents pieds de ligne lourde se sont déroulés du bac à ligne avant qu'elle ne termine sa plongée.animalnauticaloceansailingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSonder, tâter, explorerTo ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe."When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal."Quand je l'ai sondé, il a semblé favoriser l'accord proposé.mindhumanpersoncommunicationattitudeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSonderTest; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device."Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope."Les marins des voiliers sondaient la profondeur de l'eau avec une corde lestée.nauticalsailingtechnologydeviceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareSonderTo examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion."to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra"Sonder un patient, la vessie ou l'urètre.medicinephysiologyanatomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
