/libʁ/
Translation
free, available
Word origin
From Latin liber ('free, unrestrained'). The same root gave English liberty, liberal and liberate.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- liber
- English cognates
- liberty, liberal, liberate
Grammar
Examples
? au .
Are you free tonight? We could go to the cinema.
L' au .
Access to the park is free and open to everyone.
' .
She finally feels free since she left that job.
- au ?
Are you free this evening to go to the cinema?
.
There's still one free seat left on the train.
est un adjectif designe trois principales notions : la liberte personnelle, la disponibilite (pas occupe), et l'absence de contrainte ou de cout. Etre libre (to be free) est ambiguous selon le contexte. Temps libre (free time) et place libre (free seat) sont tres frequents.
Libre-echange (free trade) et logiciel libre (free/open-source software) sont des domaines specialises. Librement est l'adverbe derive. Liberer (to free, to release) et liberte (f) (freedom) forment la famille lexicale.
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