Usage Note
Bus is unchanged in French (same spelling and pronunciation as English). In Paris, the RATP operates the bus network alongside the métro. The word autobus is the full form, though bus is universal in everyday speech. Bus scolaire is a school bus, and arrêt de bus is a bus stop.
Examples
"Le bus arrive dans cinq minutes."
Natural Translation
The bus arrives in five minutes.
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