/ʁe.ʒjɔ.nal/
Translation
regional
Word origin
From région plus the adjectival suffix -al. Région descends from Latin regio ('direction, district'), from regere ('to rule, to direct').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- regio
- English cognates
- region, rector, erect
Grammar
Examples
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The regional train is often late in the morning.
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She has worked for a regional newspaper for five years.
spécialités varient ' l' .
Regional specialities vary a great deal from one end of the country to the other.
Mind the plural: adjectives ending in -al usually switch to - in the masculine plural rather than adding a bare -s, so it's trains , not "régionals".
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