mettre

Significado

1. to put; to place
2. to put on
3. to set (to lay a table)
4. to start (+ à) (something / doing something), to get around to doing something

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/mɛtʁ/

Etimoloxía

Inherited from Middle French mettre, from Old French metre, from Latin mittere, probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”).

Oracións

Ce n’était pas beaucoup la peine de mettre là un lion .

It wasn't much use to put a lion there.