Example sentences for: revoir

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

  • I once heard a Frenchman in Madrid tell a couple of Spanish shop clerks a joke that illustrates the difference between adieu `goodbye' and au revoir : At the Rio de Janeiro airport the planes of various countries were taking off one after another, and the terminal was crowded with passengers and with friends and relatives seeing loved ones off.

  • So au revoir , Massa Honey.

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

  • Dash, they cry, telescoping ( Drishat ) Sh(alom) , when they wish you to give someone their regards, followed by Lehit(raot) ' literally au revoir, as they bid you farewell.

  • 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.


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