lutter

/ly.te/

verb B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral
Word fingerprint: Register: neutral. Era: current. Frequency: common. Domain: general. Connotation: neutral.

Forms

present
lutte
past
a lutté
perfect
lutté

Meaning

  1. to fight, struggle

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive
Meaning fingerprint: Category: action. Concreteness: concrete. Agency: voluntary. Duration: durative. Transitivity: transitive.

Similar words

tirer le diable par la queue

Close — both describe struggling, though the idiom specifically means financial struggle.

militer pour une cause

Close — campaigning and fighting for a cause overlap.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

contender

Close — to fight, struggle relates to contending.

English

struggle

struggle is the English word for the same thing — both mean "to fight, to struggle."

Practice

1 What does lutter mean?

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