Practice FrenchA2noun
le retard
delay
A masculine noun — le in the singular, les in the plural.
« Le train a eu un retard de vingt minutes. »
“The train was delayed by twenty minutes.”
In other languages
- Spanish el retraso
- Portuguese o atraso
- German die Verspätung
- Italian il ritardo
- Arabic التأخير
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In a story
« Au début, Malik détestait ces retards: il arrivait fatigué, regardait son téléphone et comptait les minutes perdues. »
from “Le train des retards”, a free B1 story you can read in full.
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