Practice FrenchC1noun
le sillage
wake, trail left behind
A masculine noun — le in the singular, les in the plural.
« Dans le sillage de cette réforme, plusieurs communes ont revu leur budget. »
“In the wake of this reform, several towns revised their budgets.”
In other languages
- Spanish estela, rastro que algo deja tras de sí
- Portuguese esteira, rastro deixado atrás (na esteira de)
- Arabic الأثر الذي يخلفه الشيء وراءه (في أعقاب)
- German Kielwasser, Gefolge einer Entwicklung (im Gefolge von)
- Italian scia, traccia lasciata dietro di sé (sulla scia di)
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