Usage examples of "dessiner" in French with translation to English

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Je voudrais dessiner un arbre. I would like to draw a tree.
Pourriez-vous me dessiner un plan ? Would you draw me a map?
Je sais qu'il sait dessiner. I know that he can draw.
Laissez le thé dessiner pendant dix minutes. Let the tea draw for ten minutes.
Il est en train de dessiner une image. He is drawing a picture.
Crois-le ou pas, je peux vraiment dessiner. Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
J'ai appris à dessiner en suivant ses cours. I have learned to draw by following his lessons.
Je peux dessiner une carte du Brésil à la perfection. I can draw a map of Brazil perfectly.
Ce soir nous nous sommes amusés à dessiner ensemble notre arbre généalogique. Tonight, we had fun drawing up our family tree together.
J'ignore comment dessiner pas plus que je n'ai la sensibilité d'une artiste. I don't know how to draw, nor do I have the sensibility of an artist.
J'ignore comment dessiner pas plus que je n'ai la sensibilité d'un artiste. I don't know how to draw, nor do I have the sensibility of an artist.
Si je savais bien dessiner, je peindrai des images dans le style de « Où est Charlie ? », mais sans Charlie. If I could draw well, I would paint pictures in "Where is Waldo?"-style, but leave out Waldo.
Avant les jeunes me demandaient de leur dessiner un mouton, maintenant ils veulent que je leur apprenne à faire un commit. Les temps changent. Before, young ones used to ask me to draw them a sheep, now they want me to teach them how to make a commit. Times, they are a-changin'.
Le plus parfait des singes ne peut dessiner de singe ; seul l'homme le peut. Mais d'un autre côté, seul l'homme considère cette faculté comme un signe de supériorité. The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
L'enfant a dessiné un triangle sphérique. The child drew a spherical triangle.
Il dessina quelques lignes verticales sur le papier. He drew some vertical lines on the paper.
Je n'ai jamais rien dessiné dans ma vie. I have never drawn anything in my life.
Ça fait des années que je n'ai pas dessiné. I haven't drawn for years.
L'artiste a dessiné avec de l'encre de Chine. The artist drew with Chinese ink.
Des douzaines d'étudiants mâles et femelles dessinaient un unique modèle mâle - complètement nu - se tenant debout sur une estrade. Dozens of male and female students were drawing a lone, completely nude male model standing on a platform.
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