gêne, n.f., ☉rack, torture; constraint, difficulty, uneasiness; inconvenience, annoyance, difficulty, trouble; torment; narrow circumstances; embarrassment, pecuniary difficulty, straits, penury. Être à la —; to be uneasy, uncomfortable. Sans —; unconstrained, unrestrained, free, familiar, offhand; at home. Mettre à la —; to put any one to trouble. Se mettre l’esprit à la —; to rack one’s brains. Être sans —; to be free and easy. Se donner de la — pour quelque chose; to make one’s self uneasy about anything. Connaître la —; to know what want is. Où il y a de la — il n’y a pas de plaisir; there’s nothing like making one’s self at home.
gêné, -e, part., constrained, uneasy; short of cash. Air —; constrained air. N’être pas —; to be too free, too familiar. Il est plus gênant que —; he doesn’t mind being unpleasant to others.
généalogie, n.f., genealogy; pedigree.
généalogique, adj., genealogical.
généalogiste, n.m., genealogist.
génépi or génipi, n.m., (bot.) artemisia; Alpine wormwood.
gêner, v.a., to impede, to obstruct; to thwart; to trouble, to inconvenience, to incommode, to be in the way of any one; to put restraint upon; to disturb, to embarrass, to annoy; to cramp, to pinch, to hurt. Ce soulier me gêne; this shoe pinches me. La présence de cet homme me gênait; the presence of that man annoyed me. Il me gêne dans mes projets; he thwarts me in my plans. Est ce que je vous gêne? am I in your way?
se gêner, v.r., to constrain one’s self, to put one’s self out of the way, to put one’s self to inconvenience. On ne doit pas se — entre amis; there is no need of ceremony among friends. Ne pas se —; not to hesitate, not to mince matters. Ne vous gênez pas; don’t stand upon ceremony; make yourself quite at home.
général, n.m., (log., milit.) general. — de brigade; brigadier-general. — de division; lieutenant-general; major-general. En —; in general, generally.
général, -e, adj., general.