Grammatical class

Verb

relayer

(historical, intransitive) to relay, change horses

Details

Syllables

re-layer

Phonetics

ʁə.le.je

Grammatical class

Verb

Freq. (books)

27926

Freq. (movies)

18784

Freq. (news)

14860

Sentences

On pourrait se relayer.

We could take turns.

B1

La rue, – où passaient chaque nuit deux diligences en sens inverses […] qui toutes deux s’arrêtaient à l’Hôtel de la Poste pour relayer, – la rue était silencieuse comme le fond d’un puits.

The street – where every night two carriages passed in opposite directions, both of which stopped at the Hôtel de la Poste to change horses – the street was as silent as the bottom of a well.

C2