Words similar to revoir
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.
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.
Au revoir, Steve
An Air France jet took off, and the loved ones on the ground waved and shouted, “Au revoir!
However, the short phrase Au revoir les enfants would resist translation even if it were desirable to put it into English.