Translation
garage
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Word origin
From garer ('to park, to put under cover') with the suffix -age. Garer goes back to a Frankish verb meaning 'to guard, to watch over'. English borrowed garage back from French around 1900, when cars needed housing.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- garer
- English cognates
- garage
Grammar
Examples
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The car is at the garage until Friday.
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He put the bikes away at the back of the garage.
facturé .
The garage charged me three hundred euros for the brakes.
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They turned the garage into a spare bedroom.
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We are looking for a flat with a lock-up garage.
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Start your free week (no card)This word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 2: garage, douter, cochon and 7 more words.