bateau
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noun
- a vessel of any size, a ship or boat
adjective
- banal, unoriginal, hackneyed
Used in the library
- En 1534, le roi de France, François Ier, lui donne deux bateaux.In 1534, the king of France, François I, gives him two ships.A1Jacques Cartier, 1534
- Écrivez-moi avec le bateau du printemps.Write to me with the spring ship.A2Une lettre de Nouvelle-France — A letter from New France
- Les familles ont été séparées et mises sur des bateaux.The families were separated and put on ships.B1Le Grand Dérangement — The Great Upheaval
- Il fallait traverser la rivière pour revenir; la glace venait de descendre – c'était au printemps – et il n'y avait quasiment pas un seul bateau à l'eau encore.You had to cross the river to get back; the ice had just come down – it was in the spring – and there was hardly a single boat still in the water.B1Maria Chapdelaine