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masculine

/me.tʁo/

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Translation

underground, tube, metro

Word origin

A shortening of chemin de fer métropolitain, the metropolitan railway. Métropolitain comes through Latin from Greek metropolis ('mother city'), from meter ('mother') and polis ('city').

Origin
Greek
Root
metropolis
English cognates
metropolis, metro

Grammar

Gendermasculine
Pluralmétros

Examples

tous .

I take the tube every day.

' .

The trains stop running at midnight.

.

There are two underground stations in the area.

couru .

She ran to catch the last tube.

.

The tube trains are packed in the morning.

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This word is part of lesson 51.