Polyglot Dictionary

chirurgie

/ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi/

la noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain Medical Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les chirurgies

Meaning

  1. surgery

    • Il subit une chirurgie du genou la semaine prochaine.

      He is undergoing knee surgery next week.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

bloc opératoire

Close — bloc opératoire is the room; chirurgie is the procedure performed there.

Similar in other languages

German

Chirurgie

Chirurgie is the German word for the same thing — both mean "surgery."

Spanish

cirugía

cirugía is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "surgery."

Portuguese

cirurgia

cirurgia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "surgery."

Practice

1 What does chirurgie mean?

2 Fill the gap: Il subit une ___ du genou la semaine prochaine.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches chirurgie?

noun

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