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Saturday, May 4, 2013

là-dehors

outside there

Tu vois toutes les nouvelles fleurs là-dehors?
Do you see all the new flowers outside there?

TODAY
One of the things you might notice when you visit a French-speaking country is that the word — there — comes up a lot. Inevitably, there seems to be some pointing involved as someone describes to you where something is located. Moreover, is often combined with other adverbs of place to emphasize the direction of something. Today, we’re looking at one example of this little word with a big place in day-to-day French language.

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Vocabulary Section: Adverbs, Word of the Day