notions in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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I.notion [Brit ˈnəʊʃ(ə)n, Am ˈnoʊʃ(ə)n] N

1. notion (idea):

notion
idée f
I had a notion (that) he was married
j'avais dans l'idée qu'il était marié
I never had any notion of asking her
il ne m'est jamais venu à l'idée de lui demander
this gave him the notion of going abroad
ceci lui a donné l'idée d'aller à l'étranger
what gave you the notion that they were rich?
qu'est-ce qui t'a fait penser qu'ils étaient riches?
she has some strange notions
elle a de drôles d'idées
what a silly notion!
quelle drôle d'idée!
another one of his silly notions!
encore une de ses idées à lui!
he got the notion that he hadn't been invited
il s'est mis en tête qu'on ne l'avait pas invité
she got the notion into her head that …
elle s'est mis en tête l'idée que …
what put such notions into your head?
qu'est-ce qui t'a mis de pareilles idées en tête?
don't be putting notions into his head!
ne lui mets pas des idées dans la tête!
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phrase idea, notion
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to run away with the idea or notion that …
s'imaginer que …

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notions in the PONS Dictionary

notions Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to have no notion of sth
n'avoir aucune idée de qc
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It offered new ways of conceptualizing fundamental social psychological notions such as attitudes, categories, social representations and rules.
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He maintained that by means of conceptive notions ("katalptik phantasia") objects could not be comprehended ("akatalpta"), but were comprehensible according to their nature.
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She wins him, but the disjunction between her self-centred narcissism and his idealistic notions of helping others ensures that their marriage is unhappy.
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The sociocultural perspective deems these traits as performative, in opposition to an evolutionary perspective that describes them through notions of essentialism and innateness.
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Notions such as age, marital status and relative economic wealth were communicated through careful selection of symbolic glass beads.
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Feminist empiricism is typically connected to mainstream notions of positivism; feminist empiricism proposes that feminist theories can be objectively proven through evidence.
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Her work experiments with the binary notions of beauty and disgust, malice and tranquillity, and the familiar yet otherworldly.
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Beyond this, it subverts the notions of habitability, adaptability and evolutivity.
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He continues that there are specific human experiences evoking notions of absurdity.
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For different physical theories the notions of cause and effect may be different.
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