Word
Il prend une cuillère pour le petit-déjeuner.
Meaning
He takes a spoon for breakfast.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Il prend une cuillère pour le petit-déjeuner.
pour
for
prendre
to have (a meal/drink) / to take
le petit-déjeuner
the breakfast
la cuillère
the spoon
Questions & Answers about Il prend une cuillère pour le petit-déjeuner.
How do I make this into a Yes/No question using rising intonation?
Why is there a le before petit-déjeuner?
Is prend a regular verb?
Does petit-déjeuner literally mean "little lunch"?
Exactly! The word déjeuner used to mean breakfast (literally breaking the fast), but as meal times shifted in France, it became the word for lunch. To talk about the morning meal, they added petit (little) to make petit-déjeuner.