aalanna.

[sullen solstice]

Please be patient

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[rotund ermine]

it's se ficher

[raven barn]

What dictionary are you using? Wordreferencde has all the possible meanings: https://www.wordreference.com/fren/ficher

[crimson ember]

Ah, Google translate and Apple translate. Adding this to my list! Thank you so much

[raven barn]

ah! translation tools are TERRIBLE if you're only giving one word of input
a good bilingual dictionary (like wordref) is MUCH better

machine translators need context to do a good job, since they basically function by looking for combinations of words that appear in corpora of translations near one another... it's all based on rather complex statistics, but at a fundamental level, translators have no idea what words mean or what they're translating

contrast that with dictionaries which have been edited by humans who actually UNDERSTAND the langauges and try to give context and detail

especially as a learner, you really ought to throw machine translators out the window for now. They're useful tools, but relying on them will at best give you sometimes dubious translations for certain words and at worse stunt your learning or lead you down the wrong path from which it will take more effort to unlearn things