Feminine
🌊

mer

Sentences
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Il
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   a   fallu   six
6
   semaines   de   réparations   pour   qu'il   puisse   repartir   en   mer
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 .

It took six weeks of repairs for him to go back to sea.

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Il
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   sépare   le  Veerse Meer  de la   mer du Nord .

It separates the Veerse Meer from the North Sea.

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L’interminable  nuit
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   couvrait   encore   la   mer
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   polaire .

The endless night still covered the polar sea.

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Cette   espèce   se   rencontre   dans   tout  l'Indo-Pacifique  tropical ,  de la   Mer
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   Rouge   à   Panama .

This species is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea to Panama.

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La   marine   suédoise   était   la   troisième
3rd
   plus   grande   flotte   dans   la   mer Baltique .

The Swedish Navy was the third largest fleet in the Baltic Sea.

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Le   Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
   exporte   également   du   brut   via   la   Mer
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   Caspienne   et   par   rail .

Kazakhstan also exports crude via the Caspian Sea and by rail.

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Meaning

  1. (countable, feminine) sea (large body of water)
  2. (feminine, uncountable) the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)

Concepts

sea
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ocean
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mare
sea
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sea
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sea
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sea
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body of water

bounding main

sea
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sea
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neptune

Ocean
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Tyrrhenian Sea

marine areas

ocean spaces

ocean trip

choppy sea

beach
🏖️
briny
Irish Sea
lake
North Sea
oceans
seas
voyage

Beaufort Sea

Baltic Sea
Synonyms

océan
B2

oc´án

itsaso

voyage
A2

Mer

océan Indien

Océan Pacifique

région maritime

traversée
C2

région marine

lac
B1

océandomain:envir

mare
C2
océan Atlantique
Translations

mar
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Meer
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mare
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mar
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zee
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See

θάλασσα

deniz
🌊
mare
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mar
🌊

mar

πέλαγος

بحر
oceano
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Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɛʁ/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle French
mer
Inherited from Old French
mer
Inherited from Latin
Latin
mare
Cognate with Romanian
mare
In summary

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mer-? Proto-Indo-European *móri Proto-Italic *mari Latin mare Old French mer Middle French mer French mer Inherited from Middle French mer, from Old French mer, from Latin mare, from Proto-Italic *mari, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. The word is almost unparalleled as a Latin neuter that has become feminine without being a backformation from a plural in -a (French -e). This has been ascribed to the influence of terre (“land”). In most other Romance languages it is a masculine, the main exception being Romanian mare f.

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