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The French word for to cut is
couper





to cut

French Definition


cut
     1. v. Couper.
           "Jason has cut his little finger with a sharp piece of metal."
           "The gardener cut the leaves of the hedge every summer."
     2. n. Balafre, coupure.
     3. n. Césure.
     4. n. Abattis.
     5. n. (Couture) Taille.
     6. n. (Boucherie) Parage, coupe (cut of meat).
     7. adj. Coupé.
           You should immediately put cut flowers into a vase with water.
           Les fleurs coupées devraient être mises immédiatement dans un vase avec de l'eau.



Translations for cut and their definitions

coupure
     1. n-f. the act or result of cutting; a cut
     2. n-f. interruption
     3. n-f. power cut, blackout
     4. n-f. cutting, cut out, clipping
           coupure de presse - newspaper cutting, newspaper clipping
     5. n-f. bill, a piece of paper money


Coupe ©
     1. Proper noun. (astronomy) Crater (a constellation)
     2. n-f. goblet, cup
     3. n-f. (sports) cup (award; prize)
     4. n-f. cut
     5. n-f. (style) haircut
     6. v. first-person singular present of couper
     7. v. third-person singular present of couper
     8. v. second-person singular imperative of couper


entaille
     1. n-f. cut, slice, gash; notch
     2. v. first-person singular present of entailler
     3. v. third-person singular present of entailler
     4. v. second-person singular imperative of entailler


couper
     1. v. to cut, cut up, to chop, to sever
     2. v. to cut, to clip, to trim
           J'ai besoin de me faire couper les cheveux. - I need to get my hair cut.
     3. v. to cut off, to keep out
     4. v. to dilute (with water)
     5. v. to crack


taillé
     1. Participle. past participle of tailler
     2. adj. cropped, sharpened
     3. adj. (heraldry) per bend sinister


réduire
     1. v. to reduce
     2. v. to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures etc.)
     3. v. (indtr, à) to reduce (someone) to
           Je les ai réduits en esclavage. I reduced them to slavery.
     4. v. (indtr, en) to reduce (something) to
           La maison fut réduite en cendres. The house was reduced to ashes.
     5. v. (medicine) to reduce, set
     6. v. (chemistry, cooking) to reduce
     7. v. (military) to capture (place), quell (opposition etc.)
     8. v. (indtr, à, .takes a reflexive pronoun) to amount to, to come down to
           Les copules, qui se réduisent au rôle de lien syntaxique entre sujet et attribut en estompant leur sémantique propre, sont souvent des verbes d'état. -


coupé
     1. adj. (heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess; said of an escutcheon
     2. Participle. past participle of couper
     3. n-m. coupé (car)


sécher
     1. v. to dry
     2. v. (informal) to play truant
     3. v. to dry up, to run out of things to say
     4. v. to fail


coupée
     1. Participle. feminine singular of coupé


coupés
     1. Participle. masculine plural of coupé


coupées
     1. Participle. feminine plural of coupé


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