quaver

Wait, what's a quaver?
Attends, c'est quoi, une croche.
The quaver in his voice gave away his nervousness.
Le tremblement dans sa voix trahissait sa nervosité.
The dancers should start moving when they hear the fourth quaver of the bar.
Les danseurs doivent commencer à bouger lorsqu'ils entendent la quatrième croche de la mesure.
In the score, the crotchet was followed by quaver.
Dans la partition, la noire était suivie d'une croche.
We'll have many a meeting with him, but never will I step back or quaver.
Nous le rencontrerons plusieurs fois encore, mais je ne tremblerai jamais devant lui.
Someone was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the singer.
Quelqu’un chantait une vieille complainte de marin, triste et monotone, avec un trémolo à la fin de chaque couplet, et qui ne devait finir, semblait-il, qu’avec la patience du chanteur.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am not croaky, I am glad to say, but my voice does quaver a little when I speak of the Mediterranean, which beckons us towards the sun, beaches, and holidays.
Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, je n'ai heureusement pas la voix enrouée, mais ma voix tremble légèrement lorsque je parle de la Méditerranée, qui nous fait songer au soleil, aux plages et aux vacances.
The piano student mistook the quaver note for a semiquaver.
L'élève de piano a confondu la croche avec une double croche.
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