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feminine

/vaʃ/

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Translation

cow; (informal) mean, rotten

Word origin

From Latin vacca ('cow'). The same root gives English 'vaccine', because the first vaccine was made from cowpox taken from cattle.

Origin
Latin
Root
vacca
English cognates
vaccine, vaccination

Grammar

Genderfeminine
Pluralvaches

Examples

l'étable l'orage.

The cows came back into the byre before the storm.

Cette litres .

This cow gives twenty litres of milk a day.

normands.

You see cows everywhere in the fields of Normandy.

soeur.

He was mean to his little sister.

, !

Blimey, what a match!

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This word is part of lesson 29.