False Friend alert…!<\/p>\n
From the context in which I was reading it yesterday, I could tell that ‘intimer’ does not mean ‘to intimate’. So back to the Roberts-Collins dictionary to see what it does <\/em>mean: ‘<\/em>to order, to summon, to notify’. An example: ‘intimer \u00e0 quelqu’un de faire quelque chose’ : ‘to order somebody to do something’.<\/p>\n ‘To intimate’ is ‘laisser entendre’ or ‘donner \u00e0 entendre’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" False Friend alert…! From the context in which I was reading it yesterday, I could tell that ‘intimer’ does not mean ‘to intimate’. So back to the Roberts-Collins dictionary to see what it does mean: ‘to order, to summon, to … Continue reading