le
/lo/
Translation
batch, lot, prize
Word origin
From Frankish hlot ('lot, share drawn by chance'), the same Germanic word as English 'lot'. The sense of a share of goods came from dividing an estate by drawing lots.
- Origin
- Frankish
- Root
- hlot
- English cognates
- lot, lottery
Grammar
Examples
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He won the jackpot.
partent .
The batches go out tomorrow morning.
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A batch of old books is waiting in the garage.
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This set of photographs comes from his mother.
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Every batch is checked before sale.
Where this fits
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Grammar articles
(10)Comparing French Adverbs: plus vite, le mieux, and the Irregulars
French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
Avoiding the Passive in French: on, se and the Active Recast
Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
French Impersonal Verbs: il y a, il faut, il fait and the Dummy Subject 'il'
French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
The French Subjunctive in Relative Clauses
French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
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