gauche

Sentences
An user
À gauche ,  premier plan ,  porte
🚪
   donnant   sur
🔛
   les   appartements .

On the left, foreground, door overlooking the apartments.

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An user
La   porte
🚪
   de   gauche   est   murée .

The left door is walled.

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An user
Pour   la   composition   à gauche ,  il
👨
  n'existe  pas de   théorème   général .

For the composition on the left, there is no general theorem.

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An user
Les   Allemands   avaient   réussi   à   franchir   la   Meuse   et   en   occupaient   la   rive gauche .

The Germans had managed to cross the Meuse and occupied the left bank.

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An user
En   contrebas ,  sur
🔛
   sa   gauche  s'écoule l'Arve.

Below, on its left flows the Arve.

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Sur
🔛
   la   gauche ,  trois
3
   cordelettes   descendent   verticalement   sur
🔛
  l'oreille.

On the left, three cords descend vertically on the ear.

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Meaning

Concepts

left
clumsy
awkward
left-hand
gauche
left-wing
left wing
unpolished
skew
graceless

left-handed person

lefty

left side

leftist
ungainly

left hand

gawky
left over
beast
maladroit
odd
remaining
stiff
thoughtless
uncouthness
unexpended
ungraceful
unhandy
unrefined
cack-handed
left field

left hand side

unrefinedness

left-of-center
clunky
leftfield
constrained
crude
bumbling
ham-handed
heavy-handed
ignorant
infelicitous
boorishness
boor
leftover
Synonyms

maladroit
C1
à gauche
lourdaud
36k
raide
C1
gaucher
C2
empoté
28k

côté gauche

rustre
22k
malheureux
B2
☹️
nord
B1
oblique
36k
pataud
restant
B2
rude
C1
timide
B2
contraint
C2
déformation
26k
gauchissement
incommode
48k

malbâti

mal bâti

mal fait

mal se comporter

résiduaire

gaouche

brute
C1
distorsion
C1
grossier
C1
ignorant
C2
inadéquat
lourd
B2
malhabile
Translations

izquierda
⬅️
sinistra
izquierdo
esquerda
sol
esquerra
sinistro
links
Linke
esquerdo
link
links
torpe

αριστερός

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡoʃ/
Etymology

Cognate with English
English
walk
Cognate with Walloon
gåtche
In summary

From gauchir (“to bend, dodge, warp”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“to tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“to deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original Latin-derived word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century. Compare Walloon gåtche.

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