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tennis

tennis

noun teh-NEES Less Common

Origin: English tennis

Also means

sneaker (shoe)

Usage Note

Tennis (masculine) refers to the sport, but in informal spoken French des tennis (plural) commonly means 'sneakers' or 'trainers'. The word is borrowed directly from English. Court surfaces — terre battue (clay), gazon (grass) — are common French tennis vocabulary.

Examples

"Il joue au tennis tous les samedis."

Natural Translation

He plays tennis every Saturday.

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