Definition: to fix, fasten; to set
Peux-tu fixer cette fleur à mon revers ? - Can you fasten this flower to my lapel?
Ils n'ont pas encore fixé la date - They haven't set the date yet
Expressions: fixer les yeux sur qqun/qqch - to stare at someone/something; fixer qqun/qqch du regard - to stare at someone/something; fixer son attention sur - to fix/focus one's attention on
Note: Fixer is a semi-faux ami as it does not mean "to fix" in the sense of repairing something or making something right. For those meanings, use réparer and arranger, respectively.
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Related: se fixer (à une ville) - to settle (in a town); fixe (adj) - fixed, set, permanent; fixement (adv) - fixedly; la fixité - fixedness, steadiness; le fixage - fixing, setting; la fixation - fixing, setting; un fixateur - fixative (art), fixer (photography); une fixette - obsession; un fixe - drug fix
Peux-tu fixer cette fleur à mon revers ? - Can you fasten this flower to my lapel?
Ils n'ont pas encore fixé la date - They haven't set the date yet
Expressions: fixer les yeux sur qqun/qqch - to stare at someone/something; fixer qqun/qqch du regard - to stare at someone/something; fixer son attention sur - to fix/focus one's attention on
Note: Fixer is a semi-faux ami as it does not mean "to fix" in the sense of repairing something or making something right. For those meanings, use réparer and arranger, respectively.
(click the little graphic below to hear fixer pronounced)
Related: se fixer (à une ville) - to settle (in a town); fixe (adj) - fixed, set, permanent; fixement (adv) - fixedly; la fixité - fixedness, steadiness; le fixage - fixing, setting; la fixation - fixing, setting; un fixateur - fixative (art), fixer (photography); une fixette - obsession; un fixe - drug fix
Pronunciation: [fee ksay]Audio Link
