salade
(French) noun (une salade, des salades)
Everyday
(French) «Salade» is the French word for salad or for lettuce. It sounds like «sa-LAD» to an English ear. It is not an English word, though it appears on menus in English-speaking places. tree →
In the lessons
Heard in French lessons and seen on café menus: «salade niçoise» (a salad with tuna, egg, olives and green beans from Nice), «salade verte» (green salad). In French, «quelle salade!» can also mean «what a mess!» (informal). Phrases: «une salade», «salade de fruits» (fruit salad).
Examples
- In French, «une salade» means a salad. tree →
- I ordered a salade niçoise at the café. tree →
- «Salade de fruits» means fruit salad. tree →
- The menu said «salade verte», which is a green salad. tree →
- My French teacher asked, «Tu aimes la salade?» tree →
- In France, people often eat salade after the main course. tree →
Note
French, feminine: «la salade», «une salade». The final «e» is silent. The English word is «salad» — do not add an «e» in English spelling.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «salade» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «salade» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
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