1️⃣

on

Sentences
An user
Mais   on
1️⃣
   ne
🚫
   sait   rien   de   sa   fin
🔚
 .

But we don't know anything about its end.

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An user
Et   on
1️⃣
   te   devra   tout   le   bonheur   du   pays .

And we owe you all the happiness in the country.

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An user
Quand   on
1️⃣
   ne
🚫
   croit   pas   à   ces   espérances ,  ou   quand   elles   sont   trop   voilées ...

When you don't believe in these expectations, or when they are too veiled...

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An user
Dès   qu’on   avait   dîné ,  on
1️⃣
   passait   dans   la   cuisine .

As soon as we had dinner, we went into the kitchen.

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An user
En plus ,  on
1️⃣
   installa   un   système   électrique   pour   sonner
🔉
   les   cloches .

In addition, an electrical system was installed to ring the bells.

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An user
Sur
🔛
  Rif  on
1️⃣
   trouve   également   des   phoques .

On Rif there are also seals.

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Meaning

  1. (feminine, indefinite, masculine, plural) one, people, you, someone (an unspecified individual)
  2. (feminine, informal, masculine, personal, plural) we

Concepts

one
they
you
men
people
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
hands
manpower
we
workforce
labor force
boy
👦
work force
augmentative
labour force
Synonyms

hommes
A1
il
A1
👨

main d’œuvre

gens
A1
🧑‍🤝‍🧑
nous
A1
personnel
B1

quelqu’un

se
A1
soi
B2
ace
C2

force physique

main-d’oeuvre

main-d’œuvre

actif
C1

Asse

ce dernier

celui-là
B1
elle
A1
👩
Translations

man
1️⃣
se
men
1️⃣
se
si
uno
1
uno
1
hom
1️⃣
homens
ze
genti
maestranze
maestranza

mà d’obra

manodopera
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɔ̃/
Etymology

Inherited from Old French
hom
Inherited from Latin
homō
Cognate with Old English
man
Cognate with Old English
mann
Cognate with Catalan
Catalan
hom
Cognate with German
German
man
Cognate with Dutch
Dutch
men
In summary

Inherited from Old French hom, om (nominative form), from Latin homō (“human being”) (compare homme from the Old French oblique form home, from the Latin accusative form hominem). Its pronominal use is of Germanic origin. Compare Old English man (“one, they, people”), reduced form of Old English mann (“person”); Catalan hom; German man (“one, they, people”); Dutch men (“one, they, people”). In the second sense, meaning "we", also compare the development Malay kita orang (“we (incl.) + person”) and the dialectal forms found in eastern Indonesia: kitorang, kitong, torang.

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