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masculine

/ti.kɛ/

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Translation

ticket (bus, cinema); receipt

Word origin

Borrowed back from English ticket, which had itself taken the word from Old French estiquet ('a note stuck up'), from estiquier ('to stick'). The same French word gave English 'etiquette'.

Origin
Old French
Root
estiquet
English cognates
ticket, etiquette

Grammar

Gendermasculine
Pluraltickets

Examples

' .

Keep your ticket until you leave.

.

Bus tickets are sold at the corner shop.

J' .

I have lost my train ticket.

, ' .

Two tickets for the eight o'clock film, please.

.

This ticket has not been valid since yesterday.

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This word is part of lesson 41.