là-haut

/la.o/

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Translation

up there

Word origin

A compound of the adverb là ('there', from Latin illac) and haut ('high', from Latin altus). The whole means 'high up there'.

Origin
Latin
Root
là + haut

Examples

-, .

Look up there, there is a bird on the roof.

- colline .

The house up there on the hill is for sale.

-, montagne.

It is colder up there, in the mountains.

- -, .

My grandparents live up there, near the lake.

-- - ?

How do you get up there?

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This word is part of lesson 31.