tenir à
Meaning
- to be attached to; to be joined to (literally, physically)
- to be attached to (figuratively, emotionally), to like, to be fond of
- to wish, to want, would like
- to insist on
- to derive from; to be born of; to be the result of (of abstracts)
- (impersonal) be up to (to be left to the whims of), for all ~ cares; to depend on (to be contingent on)
- (pronominal) (of persons) to stick to/with/within, to keep to, to limit oneself to, to be content with; (of abstracts) to stay in bounds of, to keep to
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/tə.ni.ʁ‿a/
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