boire

Les Croates qui nous ont invités à boire le café sont accueillants et gracieux.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

Les Croates qui nous ont invités à boire le café sont accueillants et gracieux.

gracieux - French Word-A-Day 2009

- Stem "BUV" is also used in the whole imperfect tense of the verb boire.

amusette - French Word-A-Day 2010

My mother, who came of age during WWII when times were tough, would talk about "boire un canard" which ment placing a lump of sugar in some wine or eau de vie as a desesrt or to warm up "quand il faisait un froid de canard quand le Mistral souflait" Sante/Cheers!

canard - French Word-A-Day 2009

An expression that my ex-husband used frequently, that I don't see here is: "boire un pot" which means to have a drink (of alcohol when he used it).

pot - French Word-A-Day 2008

The Slavic verb пить/пити is related to Latin bibere and its descendants (French boire, Italian bere) and more obviously to Greek ποτο.

Apple juice nwhyte 2008

Stem "BUV" is also used in the whole imperfect tense of the verb boire.

amusette - French Word-A-Day 2010

"Qui ne se donne loisir d'avoir soif, ne saurait prendre plaisir à boire."

Sixteenth Century Quote of the Week Julianne Douglas 2009

"Qui ne se donne loisir d'avoir soif, ne saurait prendre plaisir à boire."

Archive 2009-09-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

En gros, le transfert d'à peine 10% des dépenses liées à du mal être drogue, armes, surconsommation et générant de la maltraitance permettrait à l'humanité de manger, boire et se soigner!

Archive 2009-04-10 2009