Translation
chauffeur, professional driver
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Word origin
From French chauffeur, literally a stoker, from chauffer ('to heat'). Early motor cars were steam cars and somebody had to keep the fire in, so the man who heated the boiler ended up naming the man behind the wheel.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- chauffer
- English cognates
- chauffeur, chafing
Examples
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The driver waited in front of the hotel.
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Our driver steers the big car.
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The rich gentleman hired a new driver.
is the driver as a job: the hired man at the wheel of somebody
else's car, bus or lorry. You are not a merely because you drove
yourself to the shops. For that, Esperanto builds the description it needs
out of the verb, so you are the one who or as. Note the
ending too: the -or- here is part of the borrowed root, not the agent
suffix, and the agent suffix in Esperanto is -- in any case.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 8: ŝoforo, ŝoki, valida and 7 more words.