Grammatical class
Adjective
capital
capital (important)
Details
Syllables
ca-pi-tal
Phonetics
ka.pi.tal
Grammatical class
Adjective
Freq. (books)
6915
Freq. (movies)
5968
Freq. (news)
979
Variants
Sentences
La chute du mur de Berlin fut vraiment un événement capital.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was really an epochal event.
A1
L'enjeu est capital.
Too much is at stake.
A2
Il me dit, ma chère Gertrude, qu'il a trouvé le point capital et la source de tout le dérangement de votre fils.
He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found the head and source of all your son’s distemper.
B1
La peine capitale est abolie en France depuis les années 1980.
Capital punishment was abolished in France in the 1980s.
B2