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masculine

/fi.ʃje/

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Translation

file (computer); card index

Word origin

From 'fiche' ('index card, slip'), the noun from 'ficher' ('to stick in, to drive in'), from Latin figere ('to fix'). A fichier was a box of cards long before it was anything on a computer.

Origin: Latin
Root: figere
English cognates: fix, affix

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralfichiers

Examples

courriel.

This file is too big for an email.

J' .

I put the file in the right folder.

The customer index is updated every week.

Open the file and look at the first page.

, ' .

Careful, you might delete the file.

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This word is part of lesson 40.