foreign

étranger

Qui vient d’un autre pays que le sien, lui appartient ou s’y trouve.

En anglais simple : Coming from, belonging to, or located in a country other than your own.

• She speaks two foreign languages.
• We exchanged some foreign currency.
• Have you visited any foreign countries?

Synonymes : overseas

Contraires : domestic

Expressions courantes : foreign country, foreign language, foreign accent, foreign currency

étranger, extérieur

Qui concerne les autres pays et les relations de son pays avec eux.

En anglais simple : Concerned with other countries and your country’s relationship with them.

• Foreign policy was discussed today.
• The foreign minister visited three countries.
• They disagreed over foreign aid.

Synonymes : external

Contraires : domestic

Expressions courantes : foreign policy, foreign affairs, foreign relations, foreign aid

étranger

Qui n’est pas familier ou qui ne fait normalement pas partie d’une personne, d’un corps ou d’un système.

En anglais simple : Unfamiliar to someone, or not normally belonging to a person, body, or system.

• The idea was foreign to me.
• Doctors removed a foreign object from his eye.
• Such cruelty is foreign to her nature.

Comment l'utiliser : foreign to someone/something (These customs were foreign to us.)

Synonymes : alien, unfamiliar

Contraires : familiar

Expressions courantes : foreign to someone, foreign body, foreign object