/aʃ/
Translation
h (the letter h, used in abbreviations)
Word origin
The name of the eighth letter of the French alphabet, ultimately from the Latin letter H, which the Romans took from the Greek eta and the Phoenician het. As an abbreviation it commonly stands for heure ('hour').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- H
Examples
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We meet at six o'clock in front of the station.
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The match starts at eight o'clock tonight.
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The class runs from nine o'clock to midday in the morning.
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The word 'hotel' starts with a silent h.
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The train leaves at exactly seventeen hundred hours.
Where this fits
Used in
Grammar articles
(9)French Adjective Agreement: Gender, Number, and Position Rules
French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
French Demonstrative Forms: Drilling ce, cet, cette, ces
French Demonstratives: ce, cet, cette, ces and the -ci / -là Distance Split
French Object Pronouns: me, te, le, la, lui, nous, vous, leur and the Preverbal Position
French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Subject Pronouns: je, tu, il, nous, vous, ils and the on That Replaced nous
Venir de + Infinitive: the French Recent Past (to have just done something)
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