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/ʁə.ɡʁɛ/
Translation
regret
Word origin
A noun from regretter, generally traced to an Old Norse or Frankish verb greta ('to weep, to lament') taking the prefix re-.
- Origin
- Old Norse
- Root
- greta
- English cognates
- regret
Grammar
Examples
.
He left without a backward glance.
J' .
I have only one regret in life.
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She lives with regrets.
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Regrets change nothing.
, .
Much to my regret, I cannot come.
Where this fits
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Stories
(1)Grammar articles
(5)The French Conditional Perfect: j'aurais fait, elle serait venue
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
j'aurais dû, tu aurais pu: French Regrets and Reproaches
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
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