Example sentences for: revoir

How can you use “revoir” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At any rate, goodbye really does not translate au revoir, Adieu, also borrowed intact into English, would do as the French equivalent of goodbye , and vice versa; but that equivalence gets us nowhere with au revoir , except to point up the fact that goodbye does not mean au revoir .

  • William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.

  • Only the first of its four words slips easily enough into English, as till . But English is the only European language I know that has no calque for the expression au revoir , probably because we have adopted this French phrase, like many others, intact, while other languages have the phrase calqued as: hasta la vista, a rivederci, do svidaniya, do widzenia, auf Wiedersehen, etc.

  • However, the short phrase Au revoir les enfants would resist translation even if it were desirable to put it into English.

  • Au revoir, Steve


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