le
/tip/
Translation
guy, type, kind
Word origin
From Latin typus, borrowed from Greek tupos ('a blow, an impression, a figure'), from tuptein ('to strike'). The informal sense 'guy, bloke' is a later French development.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- tupos
- English cognates
- type, typical, typography
Grammar
Examples
interesse .
What type of contract interests you most.
C' .
He's a very kind guy with everyone.
disparait .
This kind of type is disappearing more and more.
- ?
What kind of music do you listen to in the car?
- .
That guy works with my brother and has done for ten years.
Used in
Grammar articles
(5)French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
Conjugating French -re Verbs in the Present Tense
The French Pluperfect (le plus-que-parfait): The Past Before the Past
French si Clauses: The Three Types of Conditional Sentence
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