tomber
Meaning
- to fall
- to come down
- to bump into, to come across; to be received by (when making a telephone call)
- to become, to get
Concepts
be dropped
hang down
be ruined
chance on
come loose
fall senseless
feel depressed
flop down
light upon
roll about
act of falling
feel down
have a bad debt
take a fall
rain fall
devolve
drop down
enter upon
Synonyms
s’effondrer
se détacher
s’affaisser
s’écrouler
se jeter
se creuser
tomber sur
se ruer
se précipiter
s’abaisser
s’échapper
renier sa foi
se répandre
s’abattre
s’engouffrer
s’enrouler
s’étaler
s’incliner
se faire aspirer
s’affaler
s’ébouler
s’écouler
s’écraser
se décoller
s’effeuiller
s’égrener
se renverser
se rouler
s’étendre
tomber dans
se sentir déprimé
être terrassé
partir de l’avant
survenir de manière inattendu
chaye
tombeu
s’afaisser
s’abattre sur
se disperser
se faire
se retirer
se retrouver
être omis
rouler par terre
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tom‧ber
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɔ̃.be/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle French tomber, from Old French tumber, itself either of expressive/onomatopoeic origin (compare also Catalan and Portuguese tombar; Spanish tumbar; Romanian tumbă; Italian tombolare etc.), or alternatively possibly from a Frankish *tūmōn (“to rotate, reel, sway”), from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”), of uncertain origin. More at tumb. Displaced the native choir, inherited from cadō.
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