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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
à la rue (invariable)
- on the street, without a home, homeless
- Synonym: sur le pavé
- 2008, Véronique Vasseur & Hélène Fresnel, À la rue. Quand travailler ne suffit plus..., Flammarion (publ.).
Comme beaucoup de jeunes couples à la rue, Maeva et Paul ont preferé rester sans-abri plutôt que de ne pas être ensemble.- Like many young couples without a home, Maeva and Paul preferred staying homeless to not being together.
- être à la rue ― to be on the street
- se retrouver à la rue, finir à la rue ― to end up homeless
- jeter à la rue ― to throw out on the street
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