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 Translation for 'idiomatic' from English to French
ADJ   idiomatic | more idiomatic | most idiomatic
SYNO idiomatic | idiomatical
idiomatique {adj}idiomatic
ling.
expression {f} idiomatique
idiomatic expression
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Translation for 'idiomatic' from English to French

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idiomatic
idiomatique {adj}

idiomatic expression
expression {f} idiomatiqueling.
Usage Examples English
  • One writer refers to her powerful idiomatic language and uninhibited treatment.
  • Tareeno also varies from Pashto in idiomatic expression.
  • A literal translation of the Lakota word čhaŋtéšiče is "he has a bad heart", but an idiomatic meaning is "he is sad."
  • Luker (from lucre) is idiomatic Australian English for "money".
  • Control and raising also differ in how they behave with idiomatic expressions.

  • From the perspective of dependency grammar, idioms are represented as a catena which cannot be interrupted by non-idiomatic content.
  • An idiomatic superlative form using "episi" (“all”) in the ablative case is also possible.
  • There are different types of swearing (as coined by Steven Pinker): abusive, cathartic, dysphemistic, emphatic and idiomatic.
  • The Race Card is an idiomatic expression accusing someone of racism.
  • These sentences contain idiomatic expressions. Parts not to be taken literally are bolded.

  • The translation aims to be central between a literal translation and an idiomatic translation, a philosophy the ISV translation team call "literal-idiomatic" (p. ...
  • Another similar construction is an idiomatic phrase.
  • The paraphrase with "of" is often un-idiomatic or ambiguous in these cases.
  • The phrase is also found as an idiomatic expression in colloquial English.
  • The song is full of working class cockney rhyming slang and idiomatic phrasing.

  • Many idiomatic [...] were adopted from classical Chinese literature.
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