Usage Note
rhume specifically means a common cold, not a general chill. The phrase avoir un rhume ('to have a cold') is standard. Rhume des foins is hay fever. Learners sometimes confuse rhume with froid (cold temperature) — they are unrelated in use; the initial rh- is silent and the word rhymes with 'room'.
Examples
"Il a attrapé un rhume la semaine dernière."
Natural Translation
He caught a cold last week.
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