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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