la
/mɛzɔ̃/
Translation
house, home
Word origin
From Latin mansionem ('a dwelling, a stopping place'), from manere ('to stay, to remain'). The same root gave English mansion, manor and permanent.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- mansionem
- English cognates
- mansion, manor, permanent, remain
Grammar
Examples
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They bought a large house with a garden in the countryside.
week-end tranquillement.
I'm staying home this weekend to rest quietly.
refaite .
The old house was redone after several years.
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We are looking for a house near the sea.
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The homemade cake was much better than the shop-bought one.
est un nom féminin désignant le bâtiment (une belle maison) et le foyer (à la maison = at home). À la maison est la locution standard pour "at home" - à distinguer de chez moi/nous (at my/our place). Rentrer à la maison (to go home) est l'expression la plus courante pour le retour au foyer.
Maison fonctionne aussi comme adjectif invariable qualifiant ce qui est fait maison : une tarte maison, une salade maison. Dans les entreprises, la maison mère (the parent company) et à la maison (in-house) utilisent maison métaphoriquement. Maison d'édition (publishing house) et maison de retraite (retirement home) sont des syntagmes courants.
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(12)Seule dans la nuit
2 min read · Core 1000
Chez le médecin
3 min read · Core 1000
La fête surprise
3 min read · Core 1000
Le coup de téléphone
3 min read · Core 1000
Le nouveau voisin
3 min read · Core 1000
Un après-midi de pluie
3 min read · Core 1000
Un matin au marché
3 min read · Core 1000
Le coffre du jardin
4 min read · Core 5000
Le mensonge
4 min read · Core 5000
Un voyage difficile
4 min read · Core 1000
Une rencontre au marché
4 min read · Core 1000
Le détective
5 min read · Core 5000
Grammar articles
(26)French Adjective Agreement: Gender, Number, and Position Rules
French Adjective Position: Default, BAGS, and the Meaning Shifts
French Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
Avoiding the Passive in French: on, se and the Active Recast
avoir or être: Choosing the French Auxiliary in the Passé Composé
How to Say Therefore, So, Thus and Hence in French
French Demonstrative Forms: Drilling ce, cet, cette, ces
French Demonstratives: ce, cet, cette, ces and the -ci / -là Distance Split
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
dont in Depth: The French de Relative Pronoun
Faire causatif: Having Things Done in French
The French Future Perfect: futur antérieur
quand + Future: The Tense English Refuses
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
French Possessive Pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Prepositions: à, de, en, dans, sur, chez and the Mandatory Contractions
French Relative Pronouns After a Preposition: lequel, auquel, duquel
French Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
The French Subjunctive in Relative Clauses
French Verbs with à, de or Nothing Before an Infinitive
The French Passive Voice (la voix passive)
French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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