Grammatical class

Noun

repli

crease, fold

Details

Syllables

re-pli

Phonetics

ʁə.pli

Grammatical class

Noun

Freq. (books)

7955

Freq. (movies)

16787

Freq. (news)

3209

Sentences

L'anglais était pour nous la langue de repli, lorsque nous ne pouvions nous faire comprendre en français.

For us, English was the language to fall back on when we couldn't make ourselves understood in French.

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