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/a.pʁɑ̃.ti.saʒ/
Translation
apprenticeship; learning, the process of learning
Word origin
From apprendre ('to learn'), ultimately from Latin apprehendere ('to seize, to grasp'). English apprentice and apprehend share the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- apprehendere
- English cognates
- apprentice, apprehend
Grammar
Examples
plombier .
He started a plumbing apprenticeship at sixteen.
L' ' .
Learning a foreign language takes patience.
permanent.
She finished her apprenticeship with a permanent contract.
Two meanings sit inside one word. The narrow sense is the vocational one, learning a trade on the job with a qualification at the end (un apprentissage de menuisier, a carpentry apprenticeship). The broader sense is just "the process of learning" in the abstract, with no workplace involved at all (l'apprentissage de la lecture, learning to read). Context decides which one is meant.
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