oxygen in English: The gas in the air that people and animals need to breathe to stay alive. (noun)

Translation

The gas in the air that people and animals need to breathe to stay alive.

Word origin

Coined in French as oxygene from Greek oxys, sharp or acid, and -genes, producing, because scientists wrongly believed it formed all acids.

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Breathing moves oxygen from the air into the blood.

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Hospitals give extra oxygen to people who cannot breathe well.

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Oxygen is uncountable, so it has no plural and no "an".

air

The mix of gases all around us that we breathe and cannot see.

breathe

To take air into your body and let it out again.

lung

One of the two parts inside your chest that you use to breathe.

gas

Something like air, which is not solid and not liquid. Gas is often burned to cook food or to heat a house.

water

The clear liquid that falls as rain and that people and animals drink to live.

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