Get to know Père better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Père in a sentence
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Père meaning
Alternative spelling of père.
Using Père
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of père.
- In the example corpus, père often appears in combinations such as: le père, the père, père lachaise.
Context around Père
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Père
- In this selection, "père" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, centre, french, near, lachaise, goriot and fouettard stand out and add context to how "père" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as le père et restaurateur and at centre père marquette across. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "père" sits close to words such as abrasion, abscess and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with père
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He visited the store, which was owned by a Père (Papa) Roujol. (12 words)
Molinari's grave is located at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. (12 words)
The conferences of Notre-Dame-de-Paris were inaugurated by Père Lacordaire. (12 words)
Only a mere 24 entrants remained at the end of the fourth stage. citation The race finished on the edge of Paris at Ville d'Avray, outside the Restaurant du Père Auto, before a ceremonial ride into Paris and several laps of the Parc des Princes. (46 words)
Random House, Inc., 1987, p. 523. Four days later the body was disinterred for cremation at Père-Lachaise Cemetery, and his ashes were reburied at the permanent site in Montparnasse Cemetery, to the right of the cemetery gate. (38 words)
Père Ubu (later: Ubu Roi), from a woodcut by Alfred Jarry Jarry returned to Paris and applied himself to writing, drinking and the company of friends who appreciated his witty, sweet-tempered and unpredictable conversation. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Those who have not been good over the past year may also find their long-awaited Christmas gifts consist of coal, beets or onions, all thanks to Père Fouettard.
She was cremated and interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery, and her ashes were stolen.
I adored a nature study series of picture books by Père Castor, which are sadly now out of print.
Ironically, it was at its zenith when the Père Trudeau was in power in Ottawa.
Moukoko died on Feb. 21, a week after he was found unconscious at the bottom of the pool at Centre Père-Marquette, across the street from his high school.
Balzac transferred this to his descriptions of the Pension Vauquer in Le Père Goriot, making the wallpaper speak of the identities of those living inside.
Cognates also do not need to have obviously similar forms, e.g. English father, French père, and Armenian հայր (hayr) all descend directly from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
For his role in the development and promotion of a standardized French language, he became known as le Père et Restaurateur des Lettres (the "Father and Restorer of Letters").
He died suddenly on 6 September 1907, and was buried at Père-Lachaise in Paris.
He visited the store, which was owned by a Père (Papa) Roujol.
His Impressionist contemporaries, however, continued to view his independence as a "mark of integrity", and they turned to him for advice, referring to him as "Père Pissarro" (father Pissarro).
Literary reference Honoré de Balzac 's “ Le Père Goriot ” (1834) has been the inspiration for notable lines that have gained wide popularity in cinema history.
Molinari's grave is located at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
Only a mere 24 entrants remained at the end of the fourth stage. citation The race finished on the edge of Paris at Ville d'Avray, outside the Restaurant du Père Auto, before a ceremonial ride into Paris and several laps of the Parc des Princes.
Père Ubu (later: Ubu Roi), from a woodcut by Alfred Jarry Jarry returned to Paris and applied himself to writing, drinking and the company of friends who appreciated his witty, sweet-tempered and unpredictable conversation.
Random House, Inc., 1987, p. 523. Four days later the body was disinterred for cremation at Père-Lachaise Cemetery, and his ashes were reburied at the permanent site in Montparnasse Cemetery, to the right of the cemetery gate.
The army took 1,500 prisoners at the National Guard position on Rue Haxo, and 2,000 more at Derroja, near Père-Lachaise.
The conferences of Notre-Dame-de-Paris were inaugurated by Père Lacordaire.
The group congregated at Julien "Père" Tanguy 's paint shop (which was, at that time, the only place where Paul Cézanne 's paintings were displayed).
The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly, three teeth (one of stone, one of iron and one of wood), a single, retractable ear and a misshapen body.
Common combinations with père
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- le père 5×
- the père 3×
- père lachaise 3×
- by père 3×
- père goriot 3×