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le

masculine

/le.ɡym/

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Translation

vegetable

Word origin

From Latin legumen ('pulse, leguminous plant'), probably from legere ('to gather, to pick'). The same root gave English legume and leguminous.

Origin
Latin
Root
legumen
English cognates
legume, leguminous

Grammar

Gendermasculine
Plurallégumes

Examples

dessert.

Eat your vegetables before dessert.

.

This vegetable comes from my mother's garden.

soupe .

She is making a vegetable soup for tonight.

' tous .

Children don't like all vegetables.

.

He bought a lot of vegetables at the market this morning.

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This word is part of lesson 63.