C1noun
l’ébauche
rough draft, first outline
Written with an elided article (l’ébauche) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« Il m’a montré une première ébauche du projet, encore très imparfaite. »
“He showed me a first draft of the project, still very rough.”
In other languages
- Spanish boceto, borrador inicial
- Portuguese esboço, rascunho inicial
- Arabic مسودة أولى، تخطيط أولي
- German Entwurf, erste Skizze
- Italian abbozzo, prima bozza
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