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masculine

/ɡa.ʁaʒ/

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Translation

garage

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

Gendermasculine

Pluralgarages

Examples

au ' .

The car is at the garage until Friday.

au .

He put the bikes away at the back of the garage.

' euros freins.

The garage charged me three hundred euros for the brakes.

They turned the garage into a spare bedroom.

We are looking for a flat with a lock-up garage.

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This word is part of lesson 36.