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/tabl/
Translation
table
Word origin
From Latin tabula ('board, plank, writing tablet'), later 'table'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tabula
- English cognates
- table, tablet, tabular
Grammar
Examples
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We meet at the back table in the restaurant.
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Set the cutlery on the table, dinner is almost ready.
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The round table of experts met to discuss the topic.
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Put the plates on the kitchen table.
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Come and eat, the meal has been ready for ten minutes!
Table est un nom feminin designant le meuble et, par extension, la table de repas ou de reunion. Se mettre a table signifie s'asseoir pour manger mais aussi, en argot policier, avouer. Table ronde (round table) designe une discussion collective sans hierarchie.
Faire table rase (to make a clean sweep, to start from scratch) et mettre la table / dresser la table (to set the table) sont des expressions frequentes. Table des matieres (table of contents) et table de multiplication (multiplication table) en sont des acceptions specialisees.
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(17)Cuisiner ensemble
3 min read · Core 1000
La fête surprise
3 min read · Core 1000
Le premier jour de travail
3 min read · Core 1000
Perdu en ville
3 min read · Core 1000
Un après-midi de pluie
3 min read · Core 1000
Un matin au marché
3 min read · Core 1000
Clara trouve sa place
4 min read · Core 1000
Le bureau de Lucie
4 min read · Core 5000
Mathieu revient en ville
4 min read · Core 1000
Un ancien ami
4 min read · Core 5000
Ce qu'il a dit
5 min read · Core 5000
Dubois fait tout refaire
5 min read · Core 5000
Elle commence à comprendre
5 min read · Core 5000
L'homme dont elle parle
5 min read · Core 5000
Pas devant les clients
5 min read · Core 1000
Si j'avais su
5 min read · Core 5000
Une décision a été prise
5 min read · Core 5000
Grammar articles
(23)French Adjective Position: Default, BAGS, and the Meaning Shifts
French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
How to Say However, Although, Even Though and Despite in French
Reported Speech in French: Tense Backshift (dit que, a dit que)
The French Future Perfect: futur antérieur
French Irregular Verbs: The Core Set, the -ir Split and the Patterns That Repeat
French Noun Gender: Why Every Noun Is Le or La, and the Endings That Give It Away
French Noun Plurals: Add -s, Say Nothing - the Article Does the Work
Sequencing French Past Tenses: Passé Composé, Imparfait and Plus-que-parfait Together
French Possessive Pronouns: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur
French Possessives: mon, ma, mes and the mon-Before-Vowel Trap
French Prepositions: à, de, en, dans, sur, chez and the Mandatory Contractions
French Pronouns Y and EN: there, some, of it, of them
j'aurais dû, tu aurais pu: French Regrets and Reproaches
French Relative Pronouns After a Preposition: lequel, auquel, duquel
French Relative Pronouns: qui, que, dont, où and How to Glue Clauses Together
Reported Questions and Commands in French
French Subject Pronouns: je, tu, il, nous, vous, ils and the on That Replaced nous
The French Subjunctive in Relative Clauses
The French Past Subjunctive: subjonctif passé
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
French Verbs with à, de or Nothing Before an Infinitive
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