Practice FrenchB2noun
l’embouteillage
traffic jam
Written with an elided article (l’embouteillage) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« Nous sommes restés bloqués une heure dans un embouteillage. »
“We were stuck in a traffic jam for an hour.”
In other languages
- Spanish atasco, embotellamiento
- Portuguese engarrafamento
- Arabic الاختناق المروري
- German Stau
- Italian ingorgo
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