le
/be.ne.vɔl/
Translation
volunteer
Word origin
From Latin benevolus ('well-wishing'), from bene ('well') and volens, the present participle of velle ('to want, to wish'). English benevolent comes from the same Latin word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- benevolus
- English cognates
- benevolent
Grammar
Examples
caritative.
She volunteers for a charity.
.
The volunteers handed out meals all day.
l' .
He's looking for a volunteer to help him at the festival.
Same spelling for both genders: and are the man and the woman, with no separate feminine form to learn. The word also works as an invariant adjective (un travail bénévole, unpaid/voluntary work), but this page covers the noun, the person, which is the sense a learner meets first.
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