se sentir, v.r., to feel one’s self, to know one’s self, to be sensible; to be conscious, to feel the effects of; to be visible or perceived; to feel within one’s self. Il se sentait mourir; he felt himself dying. Il ne se sent pas de froid; he is quite benumbed with cold. Ne pas se — de joie; to be beside one’s self with joy; to be in raptures. Il se sent bien; he knows himself very well.
sentir, v.n., to feel; to smell, to have an odor; to have a bad smell. — bon; to smell nice. — mauvais; to smell bad. Cette viande commence à —; this meat is beginning to be tainted. Cela ne sent pas bon; (fig.) I don’t like the look of it.
seoir (soâr), v.n., to suit, to become, to fit. Il vous sied mal, or il ne vous sied pas, (de); it ill becomes you to.
seoir (soâr), v.n., (l.u.) to sit, to be sitting.
séparable, adj., separable.
séparation, n.f., separation, severing; parting; partition. — de biens; separate estate, separate maintenance. — de corps et de biens; divorce a mensâ et thoro, or judicial separation. Mur de —; partition wall.
séparatiste, n.m., separatist, secessionist. adj., seceding.
séparément, adv., separately; disjunctively; apart, asunder.
séparer, v.a., to separate, to sever, to disunite, to divide, to part, to set apart, to drive asunder, to disjoin, to divorce; to disconnect, to cut off. — le bon grain d’avec le mauvais; to separate the good seed from the bad. — les cheveux sur le front; to part the hair on the forehead. — deux hommes qui se battent; to part two men fighting.
se séparer, v.r., to separate, to sever, to part, to part company (with); to secede, to divide; to break up (of assemblies); to come off. Il n’y a si bonne compagnie qui ne se sépare; the best friends must part at last.