B1noun
l’actualité
current events
Written with an elided article (l’actualité) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« Il suit l’actualité pour mieux comprendre les débats. »
“He follows current events to better understand the debates.”
In other languages
- Spanish actualidad
- Portuguese atualidade
- German aktuelles Geschehen
- Italian attualità
- Arabic أحداث جارية
Related B1 words
In a story
« Les gens prenaient leurs actualités ailleurs, plus vite, plus seuls. »
from “Le dernier kiosque”, a free B2 story you can read in full.
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