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baby

baby

noun BEH-bee Less Common

Usage Note

Baby is an English borrowing used in informal French, most often inside compounds such as baby-foot (table football) and baby-sitting. As a standalone affectionate term it is colloquial; the neutral French word for an infant is bébé.

Examples

"Oh, quel beau baby !"

Natural Translation

Oh, what a beautiful baby!

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