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Example sentences for: revoir
How can you use “revoir” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
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 .
An Air France jet took off, and the loved ones on the ground waved and shouted, “Au revoir!
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.
Au revoir, Steve
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