Practice FrenchB1noun
l’attente
wait, waiting
Written with an elided article (l’attente) because the noun starts with a vowel sound, so the written gender is not visible here.
« L’attente à l’aéroport était plus longue que prévu. »
“The wait at the airport was longer than expected.”
In other languages
- Spanish espera, espera
- Portuguese espera, espera
- German Warten, Wartezeit
- Italian attesa
- Arabic انتظار
Related B1 words
In a story
« Dans la salle d’attente, personne ne parle vraiment, mais tout le monde communique. »
from “Le silence de la salle d’attente”, a free C1 story you can read in full.
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