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Category:French verb-object compounds

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  1. vaurien
  2. fait-tout
  3. essuie-tout
  4. touche-à-tout
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  1. vaurien
  2. essuie-tout
  3. touche-à-tout
  4. fait-tout

French compounds in which the first element is a transitive verb, the second a term (usually but not always a noun) functioning as its (normally direct) object, and whose referent is the person or thing doing the action, or an adjective describing such a person or thing.

Examples in English are pickpocket (literally someone who picks pockets) and catch-all (literally something that catches everything).

  • Category:French verb-noun compounds: French compounds in which the first element is a transitive verb, the second a noun functioning as its direct object, and whose referent is the person or thing doing the action, or an adjective describing such a person or thing.


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Pages in category "French verb-object compounds"

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