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/tɑ̃/
Translation
time, weather
Word origin
From Latin tempus ('time, season').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tempus
- English cognates
- temporal, tempo, temporary
Grammar
Examples
' aujourd'hui au .
I don't have time to have lunch today at the office.
.
The weather is lovely for a family outing.
, .
With time, you end up accepting changes.
' .
Time flies when you are really enjoying yourself.
-- Marseille ?
What will the weather be like tomorrow morning in Marseille?
est un nom masculin singulier qui couvre deux sens principaux : le temps chronologique et la météo. Le s final est toujours muet. La locution de temps en temps (from time to time) et en même temps (at the same time) sont très fréquentes dans la conversation ordinaire.
Il est temps de + infinitif exprime la nécessité urgente : il est temps de partir. Dans les études linguistiques, temps désigne aussi le temps grammatical (tense). La polysémie avec la météo est unique au français par rapport à l'anglais qui distingue time et weather.
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Stories
(16)On a le temps
1 min read · Core 1000
Seule dans la nuit
2 min read · Core 1000
Chez le médecin
3 min read · Core 1000
Cuisiner ensemble
3 min read · Core 1000
La fête surprise
3 min read · Core 1000
Le coup de téléphone
3 min read · Core 1000
Le dernier train de la nuit
3 min read · Core 1000
Clara trouve sa place
4 min read · Core 1000
Mathieu revient en ville
4 min read · Core 1000
Un ancien ami
4 min read · Core 5000
Un message pour Hélène
4 min read · Core 1000
Un voyage difficile
4 min read · Core 1000
Une rencontre au marché
4 min read · Core 1000
Elle commence à comprendre
5 min read · Core 5000
Pas devant les clients
5 min read · Core 1000
Si j'avais su
5 min read · Core 5000
Grammar articles
(19)French Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
French Comparatives: plus, moins, aussi and the Three Irregulars
French Adjectives and Nouns with à or de
French Conditionnel: Polite Requests, Hypothetical 'Would', and the Same Irregular Stems as the Future
French Demonstrative Forms: Drilling ce, cet, cette, ces
quand + Future: The Tense English Refuses
French Future Tense: Futur Proche, Futur Simple, and the Irregular Stems
French Impersonal Verbs: il y a, il faut, il fait and the Dummy Subject 'il'
Infinitive or Subjunctive: The French Same-Subject Rule
French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
French Interrogatives: qui, que, où, quand, comment, pourquoi, combien, quel
French quel and lequel: Which and Which One
French Negation: ne... pas, jamais, rien, personne and the Colloquial ne-Drop
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
French Partitives and 'de': du, de la, des and the Negation Rule
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
The French Subjunctive After Doubt, Emotion and Opinion
French Time Expressions: depuis, pendant, il y a and pour
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