terre

Sentences
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La   terre   non plus .

Neither is the earth.

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La   terre   est   vendue   aux   enchères .

The land is sold at auction.

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Le   couple
👫
  s'installe  sur
🔛
   cette   terre   la   même   année .

The couple settled on this land the same year.

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Mais   les   nobles   qui   partent ,  vendent   à tout prix   la   terre   au   paysan .

But the nobles who leave, sell the land to the peasant at all costs.

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Elles   enlevèrent   la   mesure   entre   la   terre   et   le   ciel .

They removed the measure between the earth and the sky.

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On   n’y   accède   que   par   des   chemins   de   terre   qu’un   agriculteur
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   entretient .

It is only accessed by dirt roads that a farmer maintains.

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Meaning

Concepts

earth
land
soil
ground
dirt
country
Earth
ball
dust
shore
demesne
globe
world
🗺️
dry land
clay
domain
-land
loam
mainland
mould
mud
planet
put down
scandal
set down
shoot down
stain
state
terra
terracotta
terra firma
terrain
terrestrial
territory
wiggler
black earth

brown earth

chernozem

hard-packed surface

Land

landed estate

malicious gossip

nightcrawler
red earth

solid ground

Terra

terrestrial globe

set ashore

solid earth

nightwalker
Synonyms

sol
B1
banco
27k
pays
A1
terrain
B1
argile
C2
atterrir
C1
boue
B2
boule
B2
Terre
A1
terre ferme
poussière
B2
domaine
B2
cendres
B2
masse
B2
monde
A1
🗺️

-lande

territoire
B2
débarquer
C1
graisse
C1
-ie

la Terre

lombric
mener
B2
mettre
A1
ordure
B2
🗑️
parvenir
C1
pastille
28k
planète
B1
poignée
B2
poser
A2

poudre

provoquer
C1
regrouper
23k
remettre
B1
rive
C1
🏦
scandale
B2
souillure
soulever
C1
soumettre
C1
susciter
28k
tache
C1
termitière
terreau
48k
terrestre
C1
ver
C1
🪱
ver de terre
terroir

Invasion planète Terre

Ver de terre

terre rouge

Translations

tierra
terra
Erde
terra
terra
aarde
Land
terra
grond
toprak
solo
Boden
suelo
land
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɛʁ/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle French
terre
Inherited from Old French
terre
Inherited from Latin
Latin
terra
Cognate with Jèrriais
terre
Cognate with Picard
tère
Cognate with Corsican
terra
In summary

Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”). See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.

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