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masculine

/pnø/

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Translation

tyre

Word origin

A shortening of pneumatique, from Greek pneuma ('breath, air'). The tyre is named for the air inside it.

Origin: Greek
Root: pneuma
English cognates: pneumatic

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralpneus

Examples

The front tyre is completely flat.

He changes the car's tyres every winter.

A good tyre is expensive.

We got a puncture on the mountain road.

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Check the tyres, it will be a long journey.

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This word is part of lesson 47.