Polyglot Dictionary

détecteur de fumée

/de.tɛk.tœʁ də fy.me/

le noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les détecteurs de fumée

Meaning

  1. smoke detector

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Mass Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

German

Rauchmelder

Rauchmelder is the German word for the same thing — both mean "smoke detector."

Practice

1 What does détecteur de fumée mean?

2 Fill the gap: Le ___ de fumée sonne à trois heures du matin.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches détecteur de fumée?

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