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à loisir

French translation: adverbe invariable

23:39 Aug 20, 2008
French language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Journalism / Films
French term or phrase: à loisir
Si elle use à loisir de ses atouts féminins, elle n'en est pas moins...

J'ai un doute soudain, à loisir est-il au singulier dans ce cas?
Sophie Raimondo
United States
Local time: 10:57
Selected answer:adverbe invariable
Explanation:
Oui, à loisir est une locution adverbiale, par conséquent invariable.
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Xiaren
Local time: 19:57
Grading comment
Merci, j'ai eu un doute soudain.
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Xiaren


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +7
adverbe invariable


Explanation:
Oui, à loisir est une locution adverbiale, par conséquent invariable.


    Reference: http://orthonet.sdv.fr/php/rech_mot.php?mot=loisir&x=0&y=0
Xiaren
Local time: 19:57
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Merci, j'ai eu un doute soudain.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aude Sylvain: oui, voir aussi TLFi : "syntagme défini (...) À loisir. À satiété, autant qu'on le désire."
13 mins
agree  Arnold T.
47 mins
agree  Jean-Claude Gouin
2 hrs
agree  marie-christine périé
6 hrs
agree  Geneviève von Levetzow
6 hrs
agree  Xia29
7 hrs
agree  Philippe ROUSSEAU
12 hrs
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