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/bato/
Translation
boat, ship
Word origin
From Old French batel, itself from Old English bat ('boat'), a Germanic borrowing. The word for boat thus came into French from Anglo-Saxon.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- bat
- English cognates
- boat
Grammar
Examples
port l'aube .
The boat left the harbour at dawn in calm weather.
Seine .
We spent an hour on a boat on the Seine this summer.
, - .
The same boat, same story - do not tell me the same tale again.
- autrefois.
My grandfather used to make wooden boats.
.
The small boat is moving a lot on the waves.
.
This old wooden boat is more than a hundred years old.
agitée.
The boat is moving slowly on the rough sea.
Bateau est un nom masculin, pluriel bateaux. Il designe toute embarcation, de la barque au grand navire. Bateau a voile (sailing boat), bateau a moteur (motorboat) et bateau de peche (fishing boat) precisent le type. En bateau (by boat) est la locution de moyen.
Monter dans le meme bateau (to be in the same boat) est une expression figuree pour partager la meme difficulte. C'est bateau est un adjectif invariable familier signifiant cliche, predictable. Manquer le bateau (to miss the boat) s'emploie au sens figure comme en anglais.
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