B1verb
garder
to keep, to hold on to
Shown here in the infinitive — the form you look up.
« Je garde toujours mes vieilles photos. »
“I always keep my old photos.”
In other languages
- Spanish guardar, conservar
- Portuguese guardar, conservar
- Arabic يحتفظ بـ
- German behalten, aufbewahren
- Italian conservare, tenere
Related B1 words
In a story
« Le phare ne guidait plus les bateaux, mais il gardait encore l’odeur du sel, du métal et des tempêtes. »
from “La lettre du phare”, a free B1 story you can read in full.
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