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pain

bread

noun PAN Less Common

Usage Note

Pain is central to French culture — the daily baguette is a near-universal ritual, and France has strict legal definitions for what can be called baguette tradition. Avoir du pain sur la planche ('to have bread on the board') means 'to have a lot of work to do'. Petit pain is a bread roll, and pain de mie is sandwich bread.

Examples

"Elle achète du pain frais chaque matin."

Natural Translation

She buys fresh bread every morning.

Literal Translation

She buys of-the bread fresh each morning

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