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Because of "A French vocable got one or more English vocable equivalents and vice versa." there exists a many-to-many relationship between both entities. Therefore this is the correct solution:
Originally Posted by
DBGuy007 
Possibility 1.
Table 1: French vocabulary
Table 2: English vocabulary
Table 3: Translation table containing primary keys of table 1 and 2
DBGuy007
Possibility 2 is highly erroneous because it violates first normal form, creates anomalies, does not allow to creating effective sql- queries. It topsy-turvifys Codd's relational theory completely.
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