la
/plaʒ/
Translation
beach
Word origin
From Italian piaggia ('shore, slope'), from Late Latin plagia ('shore'), itself from Greek plagia ('sides, flanks'). The English 'plagal' relates distantly to the same Greek root.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- plagia
Grammar
Examples
.
We spend the holidays at the beach every summer.
belle .
The beach is very beautiful at sunset.
courent .
The children run on the beach with their dog.
aujourd'hui.
There are a lot of people at the beach today.
.
We found a small quiet beach in the south.
Used in
Grammar articles
(6)French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
French Imparfait: One Stem, One Set of Endings, One Irregular
French Noun Gender: Why Every Noun Is Le or La, and the Endings That Give It Away
Passé Composé vs Imparfait: How to Choose Between the Two French Past Tenses
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
French Superlatives: le plus, le moins, and the Irregulars
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